{"id":7730,"date":"2020-01-29T10:37:45","date_gmt":"2020-01-29T10:37:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=7730"},"modified":"2020-01-29T10:37:46","modified_gmt":"2020-01-29T10:37:46","slug":"amazon-and-flipkart-need-to-fulfil-their-extended-producer-responsibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/amazon-and-flipkart-need-to-fulfil-their-extended-producer-responsibility\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon and Flipkart need to fulfil their extended producer responsibility"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) has told the\nNational Green Tribunal (NGT) that e-commerce giants Amazon and Flipkart need\nto fulfil their extended producer responsibility under the Plastic Waste\nManagement Rules, 2016. According to the Plastic Waste Management Rules, 2016 Primary\nresponsibility for collection of used multi-layered plastic sachet or pouches\nor packaging is of producers, importers and brand owners who introduce the\nproducts in the market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/current-affairs-quiz-2019-daily-gk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Daily Current\nAffairs Quiz 2020<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Plastic packaging constitutes more than 40% of the total\nplastic waste generated in India and it is important that a direction is issued\nto the e-retailers that they should stop using plastic packaging materials and\nshift to environment-friendly packaging materials and shift to\nenvironment-friendly packaging option. E-retailers need to establish a system\nfor collecting back the plastic waste generated due to the packaging of their\nproducts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) has told the National Green Tribunal (NGT) that e-commerce giants Amazon and Flipkart need to fulfil their extended producer responsibility under the Plastic Waste Management Rules, 2016. According to the Plastic Waste Management Rules, 2016 Primary responsibility for collection of used multi-layered plastic sachet or pouches or packaging is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":7731,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[871],"tags":[371],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-7730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-january-2020","tag-e-commerce"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7730"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7732,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7730\/revisions\/7732"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7730"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=7730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}