India Waste Regulation
2019-11-20

India - Technical Requirements for Waste Paper Import

Technical requirements for Waste Paper Import

 

The limit of recyclable material allowed for different types of waste paper in waste paper is as follows:

 

Sr. No.

Grade

Limit(in percent)

1.

Residential mixed paper

2

2.

Soft mixed paper

1

3.

Hard mixed paper

½

4.  

Boxboard cuttings

½

5.

Mill wrappers

1/2

6.  

News

1

7.

New, De-ink quality

None   permitted

8.  

Special News, De-ink quality

None   permitted

9.

Over-issue news

None   permitted

10.

Magazines

1

11

Corrugated containers

1

12

Double sorted corrugated

½

13

New Double-Lined Kraft Corrugated Cuttings

None   Permitted

14

Fiber Cores

1

15

Used brawn Kraft

None Permitted

16

Mixed Kraft Cuttings

None Permitted

17

Carrier Stock

None Permitted

18

New Colored Kraft

None Permitted

19

Grocery Bag Scrap

None Permitted

20

Kraft Multi-Wall Bag Scrap

None Permitted

21

New Brown Kraft Envelope Cuttings

None Permitted

22

Mixed Ground Wood Shavings

None Permitted

23

Telephone Directories

None Permitted

24

White Blank News

None Permitted

26

Ground Wood Computer Printout

None Permitted

27

Flyleaf Shavings

None Permitted

28

Coated Soft White

None Permitted

29

Hard White Shavings

None Permitted

30

Hard White Envelope Cuttings

None Permitted

31

New Colored Envelop Cutting

None Permitted

32

Semi Bleached Cuttings

None Permitted

33

Unsorted Office Paper

2

34

Sorted Office Paper

1

35

Manifold Colored Ledger

½

36

Sorted White Ledger

½

37

Manifold White Ledger

½

38

Computer Printout

None Permitted

39

Coated Book Stock

None Permitted

40

Coated Ground Wood Section

None Permitted

41

Printed Bleached Board Cuttings

½

42

Misprinted Bleached Board

1

43

Unprinted Bleached Board

None Permitted

44

Bleached Cup Stock

None Permitted

45

Printed Bleached Cup Stock

None Permitted

46

Unprinted Bleached Plate Stock

None Permitted

47

Printed Bleached Plate Stock Kinds

None Permitted

48

Specialty Grades( White waxed cup cuttings, Plastic coated cups, Printed waxed cup cuttings, polycoated bleached kraft-unprinted, polycoated bleached kraft-printed, polycoated milk cartoon stock,  polycoated diaper stock, polycoated box board cuttings, waxed boxboard cuttings, Printed and/or unprinted bleached sulphate containing foil, Waxed corrugated cuttings, Wet strength corrugated cuttings, Asphalt laminated corrugated cuttings, Beer carton scrap, Contaminated bag scrap, Insoluable glued free sheet paper and/or board, White wet strength scarp, Brown wet strength scarp, Printed and/or coloured wet strength scarp, File stock, New Computer print out , Ruled white, Fly leaf shaving containing hot melt glue, Carbon mix, Book with covers, Unsorted Tabulating Cards, Carbonless treated ledger, Plastic windowed envelopes, Textile boxes, Printed TMP, Unprinted TMP, Manila Tabulating Cards, Sorted colored ledgers)  

None   Permitted

 

Furthermore, there shall not be presence of putrefiable organic matter at all in the imported waste paper consignment.