Laws and Regulations of Waste Management on Environment Protection and 3R’s
Authors:-Assistant Professor Mohd Nayeem Ali, Assistant Professor Anjali Jakhar, Assistant Professor Vikrant Kumar, Assistant Professor Aabid Ahmad, Assistant Professor Parveen Malik
Abstract- India has published its ‘National Policy on environment’ in 2006 for protecting and conserving critical ecological systems and resources. The State is not an absolute owner, but a trustee of all natural resources, which are by nature meant for public use and enjoyment, subject to reasonable conditions, necessary to protect the legitimate interest of a large number of people, or for matters of strategic national interest There are global challenges effecting Global environment are climate change, stratospheric ozone depletion, and biodiversity loss. To combat the environment challenges all the countries have evolved the 3R’s.The 3R’s principle are Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. The aim of this paper is to study the laws and regulation of some of the developed countries which follow the 3R’s and to know whether the Indian legal framework is at par with the developed countries or is there scope for further improvement for better environment protection.
