Scope 1 Emissions: Meaning, Examples, and How Companies Reduce Them
Scope 1 emissions are direct greenhouse gas emissions released from sources owned or controlled by a company. These include fuel burned in company-owned vehicles, boilers, furnaces, industrial processes, and refrigerant leaks. Defined under the Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol, Scope 1 emissions represent the most direct component of an organization’s carbon footprint and are the easiest […]
Which Parts of a Car Can Be Recycled
Up to about 90 percent of a car’s material weight can be recovered and recycled at an authorised facility, depending on the vehicle and the recovery process used. Metals such as steel, aluminium, and copper account for most of that recovered weight and are the easiest to recycle. Batteries, glass, tyres, plastics, and fluids each […]
How Automakers Can Buy ELV EPR Certificates
Automakers buy End-of-Life Vehicle (ELV) Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) certificates from Registered Vehicle Scrapping Facilities (RVSFs) through the centralised Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) EPR portal. Under the Environment Protection (End-of-Life Vehicles) Rules 2025, RVSFs generate certificates from the steel recovered when vehicles are scrapped. Automakers register on the portal, receive an annual steel-recovery target […]
ELV Rules 2025 and 2026 Proposed Amendment Draft for OEMs
India’s Environment Protection (End-of-Life Vehicles) Rules, 2025, effective 1 April 2025, place Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) on vehicle producers. The rules require automakers to scrap a share of the steel equivalent of vehicles sold 15 to 20 years earlier and to acquire EPR certificates against that target. A draft amendment dated 27 March 2026 allows […]