Extended Producer Responsibility in Purna, Bhiwandi.

Many traders working out of Purna import goods or sell them bearing their own brand, which can make them importers or brand owners under the EPR framework for plastic packaging. Most discover this only when a marketplace or a big customer wants to see a registration number. We trace each product line and its packaging, confirm whether an obligation exists and in which category, register where required, and file each yearly return from actual sales figures.

Purna is one of the busiest godown villages in Bhiwandi, close to the Mumbai–Nashik highway. Unlike the newer planned parks further out, much of it grew plot by plot, as landowners put up sheds and rented them to traders, distributors and small manufacturers. Almost anything can pass through: consumer goods, packaging, textiles, electrical items, furniture and chemicals. Galas of different sizes stand wall to wall along narrow internal roads crowded with trucks and tempos, and the older village and its families live right beside them. Much of the storage changes hands every few years.