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The article focuses on the implementation of Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS)-related provisions on May 12, 2013 and its impact on Indian electronics industry. It discusses the restrictions made by the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) and the government to the RoHS rule, the requirement of the government for electronics product manufacturers to supply only RoHS-compliant products, and the similarity of Electronic Waste (Management Handling) Rules to European Union (EU)-RoHS.

The article focuses on the plan of some materials recovery facility (MRF) operators to sell secondary plastics to houses due to the continuing issues of exporting materials. Topics discussed include the avoidance of low-grade materials by Chinese consumers due to the enforcement of its government to reduce shipments of hazardous materials, the decline of plastic demand in India due to the change in import/export policy of plastic scrap, and the high demand of scrap plastic in Canada and Europe.

The article reports on the launching of a line of personal computers from Wipro Ltd. which are claimed to comply with the European Union's Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) directive. According Ramapati Kumar, team leader for toxics at the Bangalore office of the international environmental group Greepeace in India that the company is the first Indian computer maker to provide RoHS-compliant products. RoHS restricted the use of six hazardous materials in the manufacture of various types of eletronic equipment.