BBMP to implement EPR policy, aims to earn ₹100 crore annually
The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike will soon implement the Extended Producers Responsibility in Solid Waste Management policy which will help boost the revenue of Bengaluru Solid Waste Management Ltd.. Although the EPR policy was introduced under the Plastic Waste Management Rules, 2016, by the Union Ministry of Forest, Environment and Climate Change, the same was not adopted by the civic body. A senior civic official said there were allegations that NGOs working with waste processing had been collecting the EPR from companies behind the back of the civic body. The city’s civic body has the potential to collect ₹80 crore to ₹100 crore annually through the EPR, sources in the civic body estimated. A senior official said with the civic body officially adopting the EPR policy, the companies that give waste to dry waste collection centres would have to pay fees to the BSWML and those who were allegedly collegally collecting money for the EPR illegally would be eliminated.
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