Digital Platform to Trade EPR

👉 EPRETP (Extended Producer Responsibility Electronic Trading & Settlement Platform) is a digital marketplace-style platform being established in India to support the implementation of the Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) framework — a key environmental policy that makes producers, importers and brand owners accountable for the end-of-life management of the products and materials they put into the market, such as plastics, e-waste, batteries, tyres and used oil.

👉 Enable trading of EPR certificates between entities that have fulfilled their recycling or waste-management obligations and those that need certificates to meet theirs.

👉 Support transparent price discovery and secure settlement of EPR certificates, functioning much like a regulated exchange for environmental compliance credits.

👉 Link with the Centralised EPR Portal operated by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) so that certificate generation, transfers and compliance data are reliably synchronised.

👉 Under the EPR rules, authorised recyclers or processors issue EPR certificates when they recover, recycle or otherwise appropriately handle waste. Producers (or other obligated entities) that cannot meet their own targets can purchase these certificates on the EPRETP to demonstrate compliance.

🎯 Purpose and Expected Role in India

The EPRETP is expected to serve several important purposes in India’s evolving waste-management ecosystem:
1.⁠ ⁠Improve transparency and accountability: It provides a regulated and visible platform where EPR certificates are traded and priced transparently, helping reduce fraud and speculative mispricing.
2.⁠ ⁠Facilitate compliance with EPR obligations: Producers/importers/brand owners who cannot meet collection or recycling targets directly can buy certificates from recyclers or processors who have exceeded their targets.
3.⁠ ⁠Promote a market for sustainability outcomes: By enabling market-based trading of compliance certificates, it encourages innovation in recycling and waste processing — rewarding efficient recyclers with a revenue stream from certificates.
4.⁠ ⁠Support India’s circular economy goals: Integrating digital tracking of certificates and linking it to national compliance systems helps build a data-driven, accountable industry that advances reuse, recycling and responsible resource management.
5.⁠ ⁠Standardise EPR across multiple waste streams: It isn’t just for plastics — EPRETP is expected to handle EPR certificates for plastic packaging, e-waste, batteries, tyres, used oil and potentially other regulated waste categories, ensuring consistency across sectors.

👉 How It Fits into the EPR Landscape

India’s EPR framework — overseen by the MoEFCC (Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change) and administered by the CPCB (Central Pollution Control Board) — already requires entities to register and report on waste management activities through centralized EPR portals. EPRETP complements these by creating a liquid, secure market for the resulting certificates so that compliance can be achieved in a flexible but regulated manner.

In summary: EPRETP is a government-driven electronic exchange and settlement platform for EPR certificates in India. It supports transparent pricing, efficient trading and secure settlement of compliance credits, helping producers and other obligated entities meet EPR requirements and encouraging effective recycling and waste management across multiple waste streams.