The document summarizes the key provisions of the Hazardous Wastes (Management, Handling & Transboundary Movement) Rules, 2008 in India. It defines hazardous waste and outlines the responsibilities of hazardous waste generators, transporters, and operators of treatment, storage, and disposal facilities. It also describes the important aspects of the rules like authorizations for handling hazardous waste, manifest system for transport, storage requirements, import and export procedures, and enforcement powers of pollution control boards. The rules aim to ensure environmentally sound management of hazardous wastes in India.

1. THE HAZARDOUS WASTES
MANAGEMENT, HANDLING &
TRANSBOUNDARY MOVEMENT RULES,
19896 AND 2008

2. WHAT, WHY, BECAUSE
• What is hazardous?
• Why we handle the hazardous waste seperate?
• Why we are giving more importance for
hazardous waste?
• What are the different between hazardous
waste, bio medical waste, municipal solid waste
and E-Waste?

3. DEFINITIONS
 Hazardous – the waste properties that take it
dangerous or potentially harmful to
human health or to the environment
handle this waste separate because
its ignitability, corrosivity,
reactivity, toxicity
so that we are giving more
important to treat this waste.

4. Hazardous
physical, chemical, reactive,
toxic, flammable, explosive
or corrosive characteristics
causes danger
Bio medical
Solid medical Waste, Liquid
medical Waste, Isolation
Waste
MSW
Any matter we discard
that is not liquid or gas it
may bio degradable
waste
waste
E-Waste
electronics / electrical goods
that have reached their end
of life

5. SOURCES OF HAZARDOUS WASTE
 The term hazardous waste often includes by-
product of industrial, domestic, commercial, and
health care activities.
 More in manufacturing industries
 Agriculture, Agro industries
 Mines mineral processing sites
 Solid waste disposal site

6. WHY WE NEED RULES AND
PROVISIONS?

7. The Hazardous Waste (Management & Handling)
Rules, 1986 and amendments made thereafter
are superseded by the new
Hazardous Waste (Management, Handling &
Transboundary Movement) Rules, 2008.

8. PROVISIONS OF ENVIRONMENT (PROTECTION)
ACT, 1986 (BY V.RAJAGOPALAN )
• Section 3 (2)(vii) gives power to the Central
Government for laying down procedures and
safeguards for the handling of hazardous substances.
• Section 6 gives power to the Central Government to
make rules to regulate environmental pollutants.
• Section 8 makes it mandatory for the persons
handling hazardous substances to comply with
procedural safeguards.
• Section 25(2)(b) gives power to the Central
Government to make rules for providing the
procedure in accordance with and the safeguards in
compliance with which hazardous substances shall be
handled or cause to be handled under section 8.

9. PROVISIONS OF ENVIRONMENT (PROTECTION)
ACT, 2008 ( BY R.K.VAISH)
 Additions
These rules shall apply to the handling of
hazardous wastes as specified in Schedules,
transport the hazardous waste to import and
export and shall not apply to- waste-water,
radio-active wastes, bio-medical wastes, under
the Municipal Solid Wastes

10. DEFINITIONS (36)
 Act
 Applicant
 Auction
 Authorisation
 CPCB and SPCB
 Disposal
 Export
 Facility
 Form
 Hazardous waste
 Illigal traffic
 Import
 Manifest
 Recycler
 Schedule
 Transport
 Treatment
 Used oil
 Waste oil
 Act
 Applicant
 Auction
 Authorisation
 CPCB and SPCB
 Disposal
 Export
 Facility
 Form
 Hazardous waste
 Illigal traffic
 Import
 Manifest
 Recycler
 Schedule
 Transport
 Treatment
 Used oil
 Waste oil
1986 2008

11. IMPORTANT DEFINITIONS
 Operator of disposal facility: means a person who owns
or operates a facility for collection, reception, treatment,
storage or disposal of hazardous wastes.
 “transboundary movement” means any movement of
hazardous wastes from an area under the jurisdiction of
one country to or through an area under the jurisdiction of
another country or through an area not under the
jurisdiction of any country, provided atleast two countries
are involved in the movement;
 “environmentally sound management of hazardous
wastes” means taking all steps required to ensure that the
hazardous wastes are managed in a manner which shall
protect health and the environment against the adverse
effects which may result from such waste;

12. RESPONSIBILITY AND AUTHORITY OF
WASTE

13. RESPONSIBILITY OF SPCB
• To grant, refuse or cancel HW Authorization
• To prepare inventory of the HW generating units and
quantum of HW generation
• To monitor HW generating units for ensuring safe storage,
treatment and disposal of wastes
• To analyze the waste characteristics in order to decide its
nature
• To grand registration to the HW recycler.
• To approve the design and layout of a proposed TSDF as per
CPCB guidelines

14. CONT…
• To monitor the setting up and operation of TSDFs
• To regulate import of HW (Schedule-III).
• To grant Registration to the traders for import of HW
• To ensure re-export of illegally imported HW

15. RESPONSIBILITIES OF OCCUPIER
(HW GENERATOR, RECYCLER, TSDF
OPERATOR)
• To obtain Hazardous Waste (HW) Authorisation
• To obtain HW Registration ( Recycler only)
• To obtain CPCB permission for utilization of HW
• To treat/dispose their wastes on their own or through
common TSDF facility
• To store HWs in an environmentally safe manner till
disposal
• To maintain record of storage, sale, transfer, recycling
and reprocessing of HWs in Form- 3

16. CONT….
 To maintain Manifest System (Form-13) for waste
transport and disposal
 To submit Annual Returns (Form 4) to SPCB by 30th June
of every year for the preceding period April to March
(Recyclers to submit Annual Return in Form-6)
 To report accidents related to hazardous wastes
(Form-14)

17. HAZARDOUS WASTE AUTHORISATION
• Who needs ?
• All units (occupier) generating, handling, collecting,
receiving, treating, transporting, packaging, storing,
selling, recycling, reprocessing, recovering, reusing
and disposing hazardous wastes

18.  Who needs Registration ?
 All units recycling or reprocessing hazardous wastes
specified in Schedule-IV
• application in Form-5 to the SPCB
• needs CFE (in case of fresh application) and
 valid CFO and HW authorisation (in case of renewal)
• Registration issued by SPCB in the form of a Pass-
book mentioning HW type and quantity permitted for
purchase

19. AUTHORITY FOR HANDLING HW
 Every person who is engaged in generation, processing,
treatment, package, storage, transportation, use,
collection, destruction, conversion, offering for sale,
transfer or the like of the hazardous waste shall require
to obtain an authorization and make an application from
the State Pollution Control Board.
 The hazardous waste shall be collected, treated, re-
cycled, re-processed, stored or disposed of only in such
facilities as may be authorized by the State Pollution
Control Board for the purpose.
 Every person authorized under these rules shall maintain
the record of hazardous wastes handled by him and
prepare and submit to the Board, an annual return
containing the details specified before the 30th day of
June following to the financial year to which that return
relates

20. CONT…
o An application for the renewal of an authorization shall be
made before its expiry and the Board may renew the
authorization.
o The occupier or operator of the facility shall take all the
steps, wherever required, for reduction and prevention of
the waste generated or for recycling or reuse and comply
the conditions specified in the authorization.

21. POWER TO SUSPEND OR CANCEL AN
AUTHORIZATION
• The SPCB may cancel or suspend authorization, if in its
opinion the holder of the authorization has failed to
comply with any of the conditions or with any provisions of
the Act or these rules. A reasonable opportunity of being
heard to be given. Recording reasons in writing. It shall be
in public interest.
• Upon suspension or cancellation of the authorization the
State Pollution Control Board may give directions to the
person whose authorization has been suspended or
cancelled for the safe storage of the hazardous wastes,
and such person shall comply with such directions.

22. The Manifest System-
• The manifest system monitors the journey of hazardous waste
from its point of origin to the point of final disposal.
• The manifest system helps to eliminate the problem of midnight
dumping. It also provides a means for determining the type and
quantity of hazardous waste being generated.
• A manifest is a record-keeping document that must be prepared
by the generator of the hazardous waste, such as a chemical
manufacturer.
• The generator has primary responsibility for the ultimate
disposal of the waste and must give the manifest, along with the
waste itself, to a licensed waste transporter.

24. MANIFEST IN FORM 13 FOR
TRANSPORTATION
The occupier shall prepare six copies of the manifest in
Form 13 comprising of color code indicated below
(all six copies to be signed by the transporter)
Waste
generator
TSDF
OperatorTransporter
SPCB
Yellow
Orange
Pink
Orange
Blue Pink
Green
Yellow
Blue Pink
Green
Orange
Blue

25. No & colour
code
Purpose
Copy 1
(White)
To be forwarded by the occupier to the SPCB or Committee.
Copy 2
(Yellow)
To be carried by the occupier after taking sign on it form the
transporter andthe rest of the four copies to be carried by the
transporter.
Copy 3
(pink)
To be retained by the operator of the facility after signature.
Copy 4
(orange)
To be returned to the transporter by the operator of
facility/recycler after accepting waste.
Copy 5
(green)
To be returned by the operator of the facility to SPCB /
Committee after treatment and disposal of wastes.
Copy 6
(blue)
To be returned by the operator of the facility to the occupier after
treatment and disposal of hazardous materials / wastes.

26. STORAGE OF HAZARDOUS WASTE
o The occupiers, recyclers, re-processor, re-users, and
operators of facilities, may store the hazardous wastes
for a period not exceeding ninety days and shall
maintain a record of sale, transfer, storage, recycling,
and reprocessing of such wastes and make these
records available for inspection:
o Provided that the state pollution control board may
extend the said period in following cases, namely
• Small generators up to ten tones per annum.
• Recyclers, re-processors and facility operators up to
six months of their annual capacity.
• Generators who do not have access to any Treatment,
Storage, Disposal Facility in the concerned state; or
• The waste which needs to be specifically stored for
development of a process for its recycling, reuse.

27. AN ANCIENT PERIOD HOW WE TREAT THE
HAZARDOUS WASTE??

28. Open dumping and land filling
It creates more nuisance to atmosphere by
polluting environment, surface and sub surface
water

29. AT PRESENT,
WHAT WE ARE DOING IN INDIA…
HOW DEVELOPED COUNTRIES ARE
TREATING THE HAZARDOUS WASTE

30. TREATMENT, STORAGE AND DISPOSAL-
FACILITY FOR HAZARDOUS WASTES.-
 The operator of the Treatment, Storage and
Disposal Facility shall maintain records of
hazardous wastes handled as per Form.10
 Technology and standards for re-refining or
recycling
 (a) Vacuum distillation with clay treatment;
 (b) Vacuum distillation with hydro treating;
 (c) Thin film evaporation process; or
 (d) Any other technology approved by the Ministry
of Environment and Forests

31.  Re-refiners and recyclers shall use only
environmentally sound technologies while
recycling and re-refining non-ferrous metal
wastes or used oil or waste oil. In case of used
oil, re-refiners using acid clay process or
modified acid clay process shall switch over
within six months from the date of
commencement of the Hazardous Wastes
(Management and Handling) Amendment Rules,
2003 to other environmentally sound
technologies as under:-

32. TREATMENT OF HAZARDOUS WASTES
IN DEVELOPED COUNTRIES
 The purpose of treating hazardous waste is to
convert it into nonhazardous substances or to
stabilise or encapsulate the waste so that it will
not migrate and present a hazard when released
into the environment.
 Stabilisation or encapsulating techniques are
particularly necessary for inorganic wastes such
as those containing toxic heavy metals.
 Treatment methods can be generally classified
as chemical, physical and/or biological.

33. chemical
• Neutralisation
• Oxidation
• Reduction
• Hydrolysis
• Precipitation
• ion exchange
physical
• Encapsulation
• Filtration
• Centriguging
• seperation
biological
• These involve
the use of
microorganisms
under optimised
conditions to
mineralise
hazardous
organic
substances

34. THERMAL PROCESS
 The treatment processes which involve the
application of heat to convert the waste into less
hazardous forms. It also reduces the volume and
allows opportunities for the recovery of energy
from the waste.
 High Temperature Incineration which not only
can detoxify certain organic wastes but also
can destroy them

36. HANDLING OF HAZARDOUS WASTES
 The occupier shall be responsible for safe and
environmentally sound handling of hazardous waste
generated in his establishment,
 The hazardous wastes generated in the establishment of
an occupier shall be sent or sold to a recycler or re-
processor or re-user registered or authorized under the
rules or shall be disposed off in a authorized disposal
facility and shall be transported in accordance with the
provisions of these rules.
 The occupier shall take all adequate steps while handling
hazardous wastes to:
(i) contain contaminants and prevent accidents and limit their
consequences on human beings and the environment; and
(ii) provide persons working on the site with the training,
equipment and the information necessary to ensure their
safety.

37. PROCEDURE FOR RECYCLING, REPROCESSING
OR REUSE OF HAZARDOUS WASTES
 The CPCB may after giving a reasonable opportunity of
being heard to the applicant, by order, refuse to grant or
renew the registration.
 The CPCB shall dispose of the application for registration
within a period of one hundred twenty days from the date
of the receipt of such application complete in all respects.
 The registration, issued shall be valid for a period of five
years from the date of its issue, unless the operation is
discontinued by the unit or the registration is suspended
or cancelled by the Central Pollution Control Board.

38. Conditions for sale
o The occupier generating the hazardous wastes
specified in Schedule-IV may sell it only to the
recycler having a valid registration from the
Central Pollution Control Board for recycling or
recovery.
Standards for recycling
o The Central Government and Central Pollution
Control Board may issue the guidelines for
standards of performance for recycling
processes from time to time.

39.  Utilization of hazardous wastes
 The utilisation of hazardous wastes as a
supplementary resource or for energy recovery, or
after processing shall be carried out by the units
only after obtaining approval from the Central
Pollution Control Board.

40. WHY WE NEED IMPORT OR EXPORT
THE HAZARDOUS WASTE

41. o The Ministry of Environment and Forests shall be the
nodal Ministry (control) to deal with the trans-boundary
movement of the hazardous wastes and to grant
permission for transit of the hazardous wastes through
any part of India.
Transportation of hazardous waste
o Hazardous waste generated at a particular site often
requires transport to an approved treatment, storage, or
disposal facility. Because of potential threats to public
safety and the environment, transportation is given special
attention by governmental agencies
Transport vehicles used-
 Hazardous waste is generally transported by truck over
public highways. Only a very small amount is transported
by rail, and also moved by air or inland waterway

42. IMPORT AND EXPORT OF HW
• MoEF is the nodal agency
• Schedule III to be used for regulating HW export
and import.
• Export & Import ban on 30 items (Schedule VI
• Import shall be permitted only for recycling or
recovery or re-use and not for disposal.
• Export may be allowed to an actual user of the
waste or operator of a disposal facility with the
Prior Informed consent of the importing country
• Wastes listed in Part-D of Schedule III can be
imported by traders registered with the SPCB on
behalf of actual users

43. HAZARDOUS WASTE
IMPORT AND EXPORT PROCEDURE
PIC to be submitted along with application in case
of wastes listed in Schedule-III Part A
Appln. by Importer/
Exporter in
Form 7 & Form 8
Permission / NOC
MoEF
SPCB CPCB Port Customs
copy

44. RESPONSIBILITIES OF IMPORTER AND
EXPORTER
 Submit Form-7 & Form -8 to MoEF with copy to SPCB
prior to import or export
 Obtain PIC and submit along with Form- 7 & 8 in case of
Import and Export of Wastes listed in Schedule-III
Part –A
 Ensure that movement document (Form-9) accompanies
the consignment
 Inform SPCB and CPCB in advance regarding date & time
of arrival of consignment (Importer)

45. ILLEGAL TRAFFIC.-
oThe export and import of hazardous wastes from and into India
shall be deemed illegal if-
o it is without permission of the Central Government in
accordance with these rules, or
o the permission has been obtained through falsification,
mis-representation or fraud; or
o it does not conform to the shipping details provided in the
movement documents; or
o it results in deliberate disposal (i.e., dumping) of
hazardous wastes in contravention of the Basel Convention
and of general principles of International or National Law.
o An accident occurs at the facility or on a hazardous waste
site or during transportation of the hazardous waste, the
occupier or operator of the facility or the transporter, as
the case may be, shall report immediately to the State
Pollution Control Board about the accident in Form14.

46. • Any import or export of hazardous waste without
prior permission of the Central Govt. or through
submission of false information or not tallying with
movement documents (Form-9)
• For illegal import, importer has to re-export the
waste at his cost within 90 days of arrival
• The occupier or operator of the Treatment,
Storage and Disposal Facility or recycler shall
ensure that the hazardous waste are packaged and
labeled, based on the composition in a manner
suitable for safe handling, storage and transport as
per the guidelines issued by the Central Pollution
Control Board from time to time.
• The labeling and packaging shall be easily visible
and be able to withstand physical conditions and
climatic factors.

47. PROBLEM RELATING TO HAZARDOUS
WASTE
• Disposing of waste in a haphazard, improper and
indiscriminate manner.
• Lack of segregation practices.
• Inappropriate segregation.
• Inadequate management.

48. CONCLUSION
 The segregation of waste at source is a vital step.
 Reduction, reuse and recycling should be considered in
proper perspectives.
 Innovative and radical measures should be taken up to
negate the lack of civic concern on the part of hospitals
and various waste generating sites.
 Measures to remove slackness in government
implementation of rules, as waste generation imposes
direct and indirect costs on society.
 The challenge before us is to scientifically manage
growing quantities of hazardous and biomedical wastes
that go beyond past practices.