Hazardous Waste Management Rules are notified to ensure safe handling, generation, processing, treatment, package, storage, transportation, use reprocessing, collection, conversion, and offering for sale, destruction, and disposal of hazardous waste. These Rules came into effect in 1989 and were amended later in 2000 and 2003, with final notification of the Hazardous Waste ( Management, Handling, and Transboundary Movement) Rules, 2008, in supersession of the former notification. The Rules lay down the corresponding duties of various authorities, such as MoEF, CPCB, State/UT Govts., SPCBs/PCCs, DGFT, Port Authority, and Custom Authority, while state pollution control boards and pollution control committees have been designated with wider responsibilities touching across almost every aspect of hazardous waste generation, handling, and disposal.
