MRAI Flags Off Recycle India Campaign to Boost Reuse, Reduce & Recycle at the 9th IMRC Conference Held in the Capital
#MRAI #RecycleIndia #MaterialRecyclingAssociation“The Government is ensuring lesser compliance and a simplified process to set up scrap recycling centres through single window clearance centres. Setting up scrapping centres will help in import substitution. Recycling industry will also generate huge employment in India.” - Nitin Gadkari, Union Minister of Road Transport and Highways
May 2022 : Towards making India a global recycling hub, Material Recycling Association of India (MRAI) has been meticulously working towards circular economy & sustainable recycling operations in India. The 9th IMRC conference from 5th – 7th May 2022 at Leela Convention Centre, Shahdra, Delhi addressed the growing concerns for making India a green superpower by 2030. The MRAI addressed issues like Segregation of waste at generation level, Usage of a minimum percentage of recyclable scrap in every manufacturing activity in India, setting up Recycling Park/Clusters in India and industry status for Recycling Department under Government of India, Single Window Clearances for Recycling Industry and revision of GST from 18% to 5% for raw materials in the near future. MRAI also flagged off the #recycleindia campaign and sought Government of India’s adoption of the cause for mass awareness.
Nitin Gadkari, Union Minister of Road Transport and Highways, was the chief guest at the plenary session of Day 3 through a VC. Other dignitaries who were present at the event were Dr. Bhagwat Karad, Minister of State of Finance and Brian Henesey of ISRI.
The event addressed the growing concerns and drew a roadmap to make India a green superpower by 2030 aligned with the Government of India's ambitious target of producing non-fossil fuel-based energy in India by 2030 and a reduction of one billion tonnes in total projected carbon emissions by 2030.
While speaking at the occasion, Nitin Gadkari shared, “The Government is ensuring lesser compliance and a simplified process to set up scrap recycling centres through single window clearance centres. Setting up scrapping centres will help in import substitution. Recycling industry will also generate huge employment in India. There is a shortage of semiconductors in India which can also be addressed by scrap processing. The scrapping policy is designed in a way to invite investment from small or big automobile companies to be a part of this industry.”
Dr. Bhagwat Karad, MOS, Ministry of Finance said, “150 government PSUs are involved in recycling activities today. Recycling plays a significant role in protecting the environment and also to grow India sustainably.” He also assured of the revision of GST from 18% to 5% on raw materials for the recycling industry with the GST department, Ministry of Finance.
The event saw vital panel discussions on topics like “Indian E-waste Industry– Time to Synergize, ELV the Road ahead, A Paradigm Shift: BIS Standards, Plastic Recycling to align with Advance Technology, Circular Economy, Role of Secondary Steel, etc.
Sanjay Mehta, President, MRAI said that “Indian government’s policy thrust on the circular economy becomes an important step to acknowledge the power of recycling. With this, we are very confident that ‘Recovery and Reuse of waste will play the key role in India’s growth story at the time when India is moving towards the manufacturing intensive green economy. We are also flagging off the campaign to sensitize students in schools & colleges to create massive awareness. There is a need to develop recycling parks and recycling hubs across the country. Most of the developed countries have banned cash transactions of scrap. We can adopt the same as India has its own UPI ecosystem.”
In view of the above, recyclers from across the country opined that it becomes very important that we should promote not only importing more scrap till India generates sufficient quality and quantity of scrap from the domestic market. There is also a need to unlock the availability and systematic circular flow of domestic scrap. “We intend to create massive awareness amongst masses through our flagship campaign #recycleindia and request the Govt of India to ably support our initiative. India gives a steel output of 35 to 40%. By 2030, we will make the recycling industry a global hub of material recycling. Our products will be part of the global supply chain. We also request GOI to consider BIS on finished products instead of scrap,” shared Dhawal Shah, Sr. Vice President, MRAI.
“Let’s recycle not as an option for making money, but as an obligation and responsibility towards future generation,” Mr. Mehta summed up the session.
Talking about the event Amar Singh Secretary-general MRAI further shared, “The 9th edition of IMRC took place at a key juncture when the Indian ecosystem is turning towards e-mobility and people are looking for answers about battery recycling or the correct way to dispose of e-waste.”
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