Waste Prevention and Management Regulation, 2012 (Bhutan)

The Waste Prevention and Management Regulation establishes procedures to implement the purpose of the Waste Prevention and Management Act, and identifies roles and areas of implementation of the Implementing Agencies for the purpose of establishing a sound waste management system including monitoring procedures at every organization level, through efficient collection, segregation, treatment, storage, transportation, reduction, reuse, recycling and safe disposal of solid, liquid and gaseous wastes; and assign costs in proportion to the waste volume generated from the point source or by degree of their hazardousness by levying fees, charges and fines for non-compliance; and control and prohibit illegal dumping or releasing of waste into the environment. It provides for the duty of all persons to manage wastes and to report any person releasing any nature of waste into the environment in a manner other than the prescribed procedures. It also sets forth the details for management of specific wastes such as medical waste management, municipal waste management, industrial waste management, government reserved forest waste management, and e-waste management.