With the passage of time, human efforts have often resulted in
simplification of the living standards. The invention of
electricity and the facility provided using this means has been
immense and great. Our lives are incomplete without these devices.
These machines have made our everyday life easier. Insomuch as the
electrical gadgets as well as electronic products have been
beneficial to us, but such equipment disposal, when out of order or
need to be thrown out, have always been an issue of great concern
as such products comprise of hazardous and toxic components
responsible for environmental pollution.
In order to regulate the proper disposal of the electric and
electronic products once their life has been exhausted and they are
no longer good for use, the Government enforced the E-Waste
(Management) Rules, 2016 (hereinafter referred to as the
"e-waste rules"). The said e-waste rules impose
obligations on the producers of wastes of the electric/electronic
products
