1. "Act" means the Environment (Protection) Act, 1986 (29 of 1986); or Hazardous Waste Management Act, 2003 as Amended;
   
2. "Applicant" means a person or an organisation that applies, in Form 1, for granting of authorisation to perform specific activities connected with handling of hazardous wastes;
   
3. "Auction" means bulk sale of wastes by invitation of tenders or auction, contract or negotiation by individual(s), companies or Government departments;
   
4. "Auctioneer" means a person or an organisation that auctions wastes;
   
5. "Authorisation" means permission for collection, reception, treatment, transport, storage and disposal of hazardous wastes granted by the competent authority in Form 2;
   
6. "Authorised person" means a person or an organisation authorised by the competent authority to collect, treat, transport, store or dispose of hazardous wastes in accordance with the guidelines to be issued by the competent authority from time to time;
   
7. "Central Pollution Control Board" means the Central Board constituted under sub-section (1) of section 3 of the Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1974 (6 of 1974);
   
8. "Disposal" means deposit, treatment, recycling and recovery of any hazardous wastes;
   
9. "Export" with its grammatical variation and cognate expression means taking out of India to a place outside India;
   
10. "Exporter" means any person under the jurisdiction of the expor.6ng country who exports hazardous wastes and the exporting country itself, who exports hazardous wastes;
    
11. "Environmentally Sound Management of Hazardous Wastes" means taking all steps required ensuring that the hazardous wastes are managed in a manner, which will protect health and the environment against the adverse effects, which may result from such wastes;
    
12. "Facility" means any location wherein the processes, incidental to the waste generation collection; reception, treatment, storage and disposal are carried out;
    
13. "Form" means Form appended to these rules;
    
14. "Hazardous Wastes" means any waste which by reason of any of its physical, chemical, reactive, toxic, flammable, explosive or corrosive characteristics causes danger or is likely to cause danger to health or environment, whether alone or when in contact with other wastes or substances, and shall include-
    1. Wastes listed in column (3) of Schedule-1;
    2. Wastes having constituents listed in Schedule-2 if their concentration is equal to or more than the limit indicated in the said Schedule; and
    3. Wastes listed in Lists 'A' and 'B' of Schedule-3 (Part-A) applicable only in case(s) of import or export of hazardous wastes in accordance with rules 12, 13 and 14 if they possess any of the hazardous characteristics listed in Part-B of Schedule 3".
    Explanation: For the purposes of this clause, -
    1. all wastes mentioned in column (3) of Schedule-1 are hazardous wastes irrespective of concentration limits given in Schedule-2 except as otherwise indicated and Schedule-2 shall be applicable only for wastes or waste constituents not covered under column (3) of Schedule-1;
    2. Schedule-3 shall be applicable only in case(s) of import or export;
    
    
15. "Hazardous Wastes Site" means a place for collection, reception, treatment, storage and disposal of hazardous wastes which has been duly approved by the competent authority;
    
16. "Illegal Traffic" means any transboundary movement of hazardous wastes as specified in rule 15;
    
17. "Import" with its grammatical variations and cognate expressions, means bringing into India from a place outside India;
    
18. "Importer" means an occupier or any person who imports hazardous wastes;
    
19. "Manifest" means transporting document(s) prepared and signed by the occupier in accordance with rule 7;
    
20. "Non-Ferrous Metal Wastes" means wastes listed in Schedule 4;
    
21. "Occupier" means generator of waste and responsibility(Of the occupier for handling of wastes)
    1. The occupier generating hazardous wastes listed in column(2) of the Schedule in quantities equal to or exceeding the limits given in column(3) of the said Schedule, shall take all practical steps to ensure that such wastes are properly handled and disposed of without any adverse effects which may result from such wastes and the occupier shall also be responsible for proper collection, reception, treatment, storage and disposal of these wastes either himself or through the operator of a facility.
    2. The occupier or any other person acting on his behalf who intends to get his hazardous waste treated by the operator of a facility under sub-rule (1) shall give to the operator of a facility, such information as may be specified by the State Pollution Control Board.
    
    
22. "Operator of a facility" means a person who owns or operates a facility for collection. reception, treatment, storage and disposal of hazardous wastes;
    
23. "Recycler" means an occupier who procures and processes wastes for recovery;
    
24. "Recycling of Waste Oil" means reclamation by way of treatment to separate solids and water from waste oils using methods such as heating, filtering, gravity settling, centrifuging, dehydration, viscosity and specific gravity adjustment;
    
25. "Registered Re-Refiner or Recycler" means a re-refiner or recycler registered for reprocessing wastes with the Ministry of Environment and Forests or the Central Pollution Control Board, as the case may be, for reprocessing wastes;
    
26. "Re-Refining of Used Oil" means applying a process to the material composed of used oil so as to produce high quality base stock for further manufacture of lubricants or for other petroleum products by blending or any other process;
    
27. "Schedule" means Schedule appended to these rules;
    
28. "State Government" means a State Government and in relation to a Union territory, the Administrator thereof appointed under article 239 of the Constitution;
    
29. "State Pollution Control Board" means the Board appointed under sub-section of the section 4 of the Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act 1974 (6 of 1974); and under Section 4 of the Air (Prevention and Control of Pollution3 Act, 1981 (14 of 1981);
    
30. "Storage" means storing hazardous wastes for a temporary period, at the end of which the hazardous wastes is treated and disposed off;
    
31. "Transboundary Movement" means any movement of hazardous wastes or other wastes from an area under the national jurisdiction of one country to or through an area under the national jurisdiction of another country or to or through an area not under the national jurisdiction of any country, provided at least two countries are involved in the movement;
    
32. "Transport" means off-site movement of hazardous waste by air, rail, road or water;
    
33. "Transporter" means a person engaged in the off-site transportation of hazardous waste by air, rail, road or water;
    
34. "Treatment" means a method, technique or process, designed to change the physical, chemical or biological characteristics or composition of any hazardous waste so as to render such wastes harmless;
    
35. "Used Oil" means any oil -
    1. Derived from crude oil or mixtures containing synthetic oil including used engine oil, gear oil, hydraulic oil, turbine oil, compressor oil, industrial gear oil, heat transfer oil, transformer oil, spent oil and their tank bottom sludges; and
    2. Suitable for re-refining if it meets the specifications laid down in Schedule 5, but does not include waste oil;
36. "Waste Oil" means any oil -
    1. Which includes spills of crude oil, emulsions, tank bottom sludge and slop oil generated from petroleum refineries, installations or ships; and
    2. Is unsuitable for re-refining, but can be used as fuel in furnaces if it meets the specifications laid down in Schedule 6;

Toshi Group of Industries is authorized by UPSPCB and CPCB to lift, transport from all over the continent of India to treat and recycle used oils and waste oils at its facility in Sikandrabad Industrial Area, Sikandrabad Distt. Bulandshar, 203205, UP, India. 

Toshi Group of Industries has trained staff members, tankers, resources, technology and project management expertise to safely lift used oil in a very short duration.

Toshi Group of Industries has deep expertise in the process, treatment and disposal of hazardous waste. We are licensed in the states of UP and setting up complete integrated facilities in several states in North India. Toshi Group of Industries complies with local, state and national environment laws and procedures while transporting, receiving, treating and disposing hazardous waste with specific reference to: