With the available waste management policies, including e-waste (Management and Handling) Rules, 2011 silent on handling of used fluorescent tubelights (FTLs), which contain mercury, the Puducherry Pollution Control Committee is in the process of framing a draft policy for safe management of FTLs.

The core element of the policy, according to a PPCC official, was to encourage manufacturers to set up plants to recycle used FTLs and dealers, both wholesalers and retailers to provide special disposal bins in their outlets to collect the lamps. The organisation was also mulling to provide a small sum as incentive to get back the used FTLs.