Registration and credits, managed as one.

Every producer, importer, and brand owner (PIBO) that places a notified product on the Indian market must register under Extended Producer Responsibility and take responsibility for its post-consumer waste. In practice, registration lives across three separate CPCB portals — one each for plastic packaging, batteries, and e-waste — plus notifications for tyres, used oil, construction and demolition waste, and ELVs. Each has its own login, its own document checklist, and its own review cadence.

That fragmentation is where most applications stall. A missing undertaking, a mismatched GST detail, or a category selected incorrectly can push a file back weeks. We run a pre-filing gap analysis first, so the application that reaches CPCB is clean — then we manage the portal entries, respond to officer queries, and see the certificate through to issue.

But the certificate is only the start. An EPR credit is a verifiable record of a real recycling event — issued in kilograms or tonnes when an authorised recycler processes waste and uploads the details to the CPCB portal. Producers who fall short of their collection or recycling targets acquire these credits; recyclers with certified capacity generate and trade them. With targets for several categories now reaching 70%, internal collection alone rarely closes the gap.

The risk sits in the matching and the paper trail. CPCB has moved to timestamped, verification-backed certificates to shut out phantom credits — a credit that is not backed by a genuine, documented recycling event is a liability, not an asset. Because we run registration and credits under one roof, the filing, the recycler match, the agreement, and the quarterly reconciliation all stay with one accountable lead.