The obligation follows the product. So should the record.
Whoever puts electrical and electronic equipment on the
market stays responsible for it once it reaches the end of its life. This page
sets out what Extended Producer Responsibility asks for, who it lands on, and how
the chain runs from a collection target to the paperwork that closes it.
Applies toProducers, manufacturers, importers and brand owners of electrical and
electronic equipment — and the organisations that buy it in bulk.
RequiresRegistering the obligation, meeting a collection target, and channelling
end-of-life equipment into authorised handling rather than the open market.
ProducesA record: what was collected, what it weighed, where each material stream
went, and how that measures against the target.
What Extended Producer Responsibility actually asks for.
EPR moves the cost and the effort of end-of-life equipment back to the party that
placed it on the market. Once a product has been sold, its disposal does not become
somebody else's problem — the producer stays accountable for getting a defined share
of it back and having it handled properly.
In practice it is an accounting exercise as much as a physical one. A quantity goes
onto the market, a proportion of it has to be collected back within a defined period,
and both halves have to be evidenced. Equipment that leaves a site without
documentation counts towards nothing, however responsibly it was handled.
That is why who handles the material matters more than the price per kilogram.
What a producer is buying is a defensible record as much as a collection.
The words the rule uses
Producer
Anyone who manufactures equipment, imports it, or sells it under their own
brand — anyone who places it on the market.
Bulk consumer
An organisation that buys and retires equipment at scale: offices,
institutions, hospitals, banks and public bodies rather than households.
Channelisation
Directing end-of-life equipment along a defined route into authorised
handling, instead of letting it disappear into the informal market.
Collection target
The quantity a producer is expected to collect back in a period, set against
what it placed on the market in an earlier one.
Chain of custody
The unbroken record of who held a consignment at every point between the site
it left and the facility that processed it.
The life of one device.
Before any of this is paperwork it is an object. Something was
built, sold, used until it stopped being useful, and then had to go somewhere.
Extended Producer Responsibility is the rule that decides where, and who is
answerable for it getting there.
01
Made and sold
A producer, importer or brand owner places equipment on the market.
02
In use
It does its working life in a home, an office, a hospital or a server room.
03
End of life
It is replaced, retired or simply fails, and stops being equipment.
04
Collected
It is counted and listed before anything moves, so the consignment is identifiable.
05
Moved under manifest
It travels as a described load with a reference attached, not as anonymous scrap.
06
Data handled first
Anything data-bearing is separated and dealt with before dismantling begins.
07
Taken apart
Dismantling separates the device into the materials it is actually made of.
08
Materials recovered
Metals, plastics and boards go back into supply, and the weights become the record.
Who carries it.
Producers & manufacturers
If you build equipment, or have it built for sale here, the obligation starts
with you and is measured against what you put on the market.
Importers
Equipment brought into the country carries the same responsibility as equipment
made here. The importer stands in the producer's place.
Brand owners
Selling under your own name makes you the producer of that equipment, whoever
manufactured it and wherever it was assembled.
Bulk consumers
Organisations that retire equipment in quantity have their own duty: route it to
authorised handling, and keep the records that show they did.
Six stages, and the sixth feeds the first.
The EPR chain is a loop rather than a line. Everything
between a target being set and that target being evidenced is physical work —
collection, separation, recovery — and every stage has to leave a record behind it,
or the last stage has nothing to file.
01Producer
Registration
The producer, importer or brand owner registers its obligation and is measured
against a collection target for the period.
02Consumer
Take-back
Households, offices and bulk consumers hand equipment back through take-back
arrangements, collection points or a booked pickup.
03Delco
Collection
Material is counted and listed before the vehicle leaves, so a consignment is
identifiable from its first move.
04Delco
Data first
Anything data-bearing is separated and dealt with before dismantling begins.
Weights, references and destinations come back to the producer as evidence
against the target for the period.
And back to 01.What stage 06 produces is what the next period's target is set against.
A chain that reports properly makes the following year's obligation a
calculation rather than a scramble.
A target is met on a loading bay, not in a spreadsheet.
Stages 03 to 05 are the physical half of the obligation. Everything a producer
eventually files starts as a counted pallet leaving a building.
Where Delco Global sits in that chain.
We are not the regulator and we do not issue authorisations.
Delco is the operational half of the obligation: getting equipment off your site,
taking it apart, and handing back a record of what happened to it.
Drives, laptops, phones and servers are identified and dealt with before the
hardware is broken down, because an EPR programme should never be the reason
information leaves a building.
Equipment is separated by hand into the streams it is actually made of —
boards, metals, plastics, cabling, batteries — so recovery is a sorting job
rather than a shredding job.
Quantities, consignment references and the destination of each stream, returned
in a form your own compliance reporting can use — not a receipt for a load of
mixed scrap.
What we can evidence today.
Delco Global is a young company and says so. The record
below is what exists in public registers right now. If your programme needs a
specific authorisation in place before you can appoint a handler, ask us and you
will get a straight answer about what we can and cannot sign for.
Registered entity
Delco Global E-Waste Recycling Private Limited
CIN U38300MR2026PTC474965 · Registrar of Companies, Mumbai
Incorporated
25 March 2026
Private limited company, limited by shares
Consent to Establish, granted 29 May 2026
UAN MPCB-CONSENT-0000286996 · Village Dheku, Post Sajgaon, Khopoli
Questions we are asked.
Who actually carries the EPR obligation?
The party that places equipment on the market: the manufacturer, the importer, or
whoever sells it under their own brand. A bulk consumer is not a producer, but it
has its own duty to route retired equipment into authorised handling and to keep
the records that show where it went.
Does Delco register our EPR for us?
No. Registration sits between the producer and the regulator, and nobody should
offer to stand in the middle of that. What we do is the operational side of the
obligation — collection, data handling, dismantling and the documentation that
comes back — and explain what the chain has to produce so your filing has
something behind it.
What counts as evidence at the end of the chain?
Paperwork that ties a quantity to a consignment, and that consignment to the
facility that processed it. A weight with no reference behind it, or a reference
that stops at a transporter, is not a chain of custody — it is a gap in one.
We are a bulk consumer, not a producer. Does any of this apply to us?
Yes, in a different shape. You are not measured against a collection target, but
the equipment you retire still has to leave through an authorised route, and you
still need to be able to show that it did. For most organisations that is the
practical half of EPR they meet — usually at the point an office is refitted or a
fleet of laptops is replaced.
What happens to equipment that still holds data?
It is separated at collection and dealt with before anything is dismantled. That
sequence is not negotiable: recovery of the material comes after the information
on it has been handled.
