The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change vide notification dated 27th January, 2021 has issued the Hazardous and Other Wastes (Management and Transboundary Movement) Rules, 2016. The import of ‘post-industrial or pre-consumer polyethylene wastes’ and ‘Polymethyl Methacrylate’ is permitted to units in Special Economic Zones and Export Oriented Units notified by the Central Government.
The import of ‘post-industrial or pre-consumer polyethylene wastes’ shall be permitted with a requirement of at least fifty percent exports in terms of tonnage for 18 months from the date of this notification or till a decision is taken on the basis of review or audit undertaken to ascertain the effect of such import, whichever is later.
