SEZ - Policy to regulate carrying on recycling of plastic scrap or waste
THE Department of Commerce has prescribed the Policy to be followed by the units in SEZs carrying on recycling of plastic scrap or waste. Some features of the policy are:-
Import of plastic waste/scrap shall be permitted only as per the approved capacity of the Letter of Approval issued to a SEZ unit.
The description/definition of the plastic waste/scrap for this purpose would be: "Plastic scrap/ waste constitute those fractions of plastics generated by various plastic processing operations or those fractions generated in the production process of plastics in a plant, which have not been put to any use whatsoever and as such can be termed as virgin or new material which can be recycled into viable commercial products using standard plastic processing techniques but without involving any process of cleaning, whereby effluents are generated."
PET bottle waste/scrap shall continue to be freely importable as hitherto.
As per the Water (Prevention & Control of Pollution) Act, 1974 and the Air (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1981, plastic processing units are required to obtain Consent to establish and Consent to operate from the State Pollution Control Board concerned.
Before the clearance of the plastic waste/scrap, all imported consignments of such plastic waste/scrap shall be subjected to scrutiny and testing of samples.