1Associate Professor, Department of Law, Bareilly College, Bareilly, India. Email id: dksingh@bareillycollege.org
2Research Scholar, Department of Law, Dr. Shakuntala Misra National Rehabilitation University, Lucknow, India. Email id: anujsinghj13@gmail.com
Online published on 14 August, 2018.
Bio-Medical waste is a threat to entire world and situation of India is not different. Indisposed bio-medical waste is the cause of many diseases. If it is disposed of properly, the graph of communicable diseases will slow down. There have been wide spread concern over Bio-Medical waste in India. For nurturing the efficacy of bio-medical waste regulation first Bio-Medical Waste (Management & Handling) Rules 1998 afterwards Bio-Medical Waste Management Rules 2016 has been framed and further has been amended in March 2018. In this research paper, the authors critically analyze the Bio-Medical Waste Management Rule 2016 and offer some suggestive measures to implement these rules. The various international conventions and laws are analyzed by the authors like the Stockholm Convention, Basel Convention and the Minamata Convention on Mercury. This paper also provides a glimpse of United States and United Kingdom model on Bio-medical waste regulation. The paper also explains the magnitude of bio-medical waste in India and how India is dealing with these wastes through rules under Environment (protection) Act, 1986.
Bio-Medical waste, Environment Protection, BMW Rules 2016, International Convention, WHO
