Overview
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 the year 1989 and have been amended later in the years 2000, 2003, 2008 and with final notification of the Hazardous Waste (Management, Handling and Transboundary Movement) Rules, 2016 in supersession of former notification.