SEMINAR ON WASTE MANAGEMENT LAWS IN INDIA

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A session on the topic of ‘Waste Management Laws in India’ was conducted on the 21st of September 2022 for the students from the Department of Data Science students as part of the Plastic Clean-up Drive organised by the Department of Data Science, Data Science Association (DSA – DATUM) with the collaboration of Institute Innovation Council (IIC) in CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Pune Lavasa Campus.

The session was handled by the speaker Ms Kalyani Abhyankar. Ms Kalyani is a law faculty in the School of Law, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Pune Lavasa Campus. She has completed her BBA LLB (Hons) in Constitutional Law from CHRIST (Deemed to be University) Banglore Central Campus and her masters in LLM, Constitutional Law from National University of Advanced Legal Students, Kochi. She is currently pursuing her PhD from National Law Institute University, Bhopal. She has been an intern in various organisations and was a committed NCC Cadet during her education. She has been part of various educational organisations and has been working as Assistant Professor in CHRIST (Deemed to be University) since 2021.

Her talk was focused on the aspects of Plastics and waste management. The speaker started the session with basic facts about India’s status in terms of waste management and how it is one of the countries with the lowest plastic waste produced. The speaker interacted with the students and asked about their awareness regarding the laws made by the government of India in managing waste; the audience, to her surprise, was aware of most of the rules, like the Manjaipai revolution and the Environment Protection act.

Ms Kalyani started with the Waste management laws in India, how the laws are governed by the Solid Waste Management Rules 2016, and how the various government and non-government agencies are involved in reducing the impact of waste in Climatic Change. She also spread different types of waste, including municipal solid waste, hazardous waste, biomedical waste, and e-waste.

She focused on and explained the responsibilities of local bodies, such as municipalities and panchayats, to manage waste within their jurisdiction. She told, addition to the Solid Waste Management Rules, there are other laws and regulations related to waste management in India, including the Environmental Protection Act, 1986, the Hazardous Waste (Management, Handling and Transboundary Movement) Rules, 2008, and the Bio-Medical Waste (Management and Handling) Rules, 1998. These laws regulate the handling, transportation, and disposal of specific types of waste, such as hazardous and biomedical waste.

The session included a lot of informative and valuable tips on plastic waste management and the laws India has for managing plastic waste. There are various types of plastics, some are harmful, and some are not, and all of this depends on the thickness of the plastic, the thicker, more brittle and less recyclable.

The speaker also listed the laws the Indian government made regarding waste management. Regulations like “Plastic waste (management and handling) rule, 2011”, “Plastics Waste Management Rule, 2016”, “Plastics Waste Management Rule (Amendment), 2018”, and finally “, Plastics Waste Management Rule (Amendment), 2021.”

To make the session more interactive and exciting, four volunteers were picked and given the role of a legislative and were asked to come up with compelling laws for waste management, which ended up on a very innovative and creative note. The students could devise out-of-the-box ideas, laws for managing the waste generated, and laws to manage them.

Ms Abhyankar herself has taken the initiative of banning single-use plastic in the market area of Noida by fining the violators and collecting 72 Lakhs to be further used in the same industry. The session ended with the speaker enhancing the importance of small efforts by every individual by taking cloth handbags to market instead of using single-use plastic. The session was insightful and helped the students understand the waste management laws and policies in India. 

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