MULTI-STAKEHOLDER STRATEGIC FRAMEWORK INTERFACE FOR PORTABLE BATTERY WASTE MANAGEMENT

Need and possible amendments in existing practices of collection, treatment and recycling of portable batteries waste has been reviewed and highlighted. This waste has been found as an emerging hazardous waste for its heavy generation and its discard along with municipal solid waste in most of the countries around the world. This practice has been criticized and a framework to handling the portable battery waste has been presented in this paper. This framework can be used by the legislature to develop the policies to the consumers for higher collection of spent batteries so that these can be disposed off in environmentally safe manner