Overview
- Four-way segregation at source becomes mandatory, covering wet, dry, sanitary and special care waste with specified handling routes.
- Extended Bulk Waste Generator Responsibility requires entities meeting floor area, water use or 100 kg/day thresholds to process wet waste on-site or obtain compliance certificates.
- Enforcement follows the polluter-pays principle, with CPCB issuing guidelines, state boards levying environmental compensation and a centralized portal handling registration, reporting and audits.
- Landfilling is limited to non-recyclable, non-energy-recoverable and inert waste, with higher fees for mixed waste and time-bound biomining of mapped legacy dumpsites tracked online.
- Industries must raise Refuse Derived Fuel substitution from 5% to 15% over six years, while phased timelines give million-plus cities 18 months to comply from April 1.