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Competition in focus
Competition in focus Published this article Often these disabilities have led to the EPR targets remaining unmet. Gap analysis of why EPR targets remain short of being met has revealed that the unsteady inflow of new funds from producers to meet their EPR targets coupled with missing enforcement transparency and traceability of e-waste flows has led to perverse market incentives. As a result a potentially significant amount of e-waste is not being channelled to those who recycle it in an environmentally safe manner. Another important issue is the lack of sufficient metal processing infrastructure which is why recyclers have to export materials to global smelters and hence never fully realise the true value of extraction both in terms of processing cost and the price of the extracted metals quality and quantity. If these materials are domestically isolated it can lead to greater metals security and resource efficiency in the country (NITI Aayog 2017) competition in focus current affairs.