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Haier, Godrej, Blue Star Faulted for Fake E-Waste Recycling Claims in India
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Moneycontrol•30-09-2026, 15:38
Haier, Godrej, Blue Star Faulted for Fake E-Waste Recycling Claims in India
- •Indian tax authorities have accused Haier, Godrej & Boyce, and Blue Star of failing to detect fabricated e-waste recycling claims from a spurious recycler, WEEE-PRO Resource Recovery Solutions.
- •The appliance makers allegedly relied on these fake claims to meet green goals and wrongly claimed $714,000 in tax credits for services never rendered.
- •India, the third-largest e-waste generator, is concerned about 78% of waste being processed by informal dealers using environmentally harmful methods.
- •The 550-page notice detailed lapses, including the companies admitting they did not independently verify the actual collection or processing of e-waste.
- •The findings have alarmed India's $95-billion consumer electronics market, prompting internal reviews of recycling supply chains by other major companies.
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Indian tax authorities faulted appliance makers Haier, Godrej & Boyce, and Blue Star for failing to detect fabricated documents from a spurious recycler and wrongly claiming $714,000 in tax credits for recycling services that were never actually rendered.
The notice cited WEEE-PRO Resource Recovery Solutions as the issuer of the compliance certificates, though investigators found the vendor did no actual e-waste work and utilized digitally altered photographs.
According to the tax notice, Haier wrongly claimed $367,900, Godrej claimed $159,700, and Blue Star claimed $186,600, bringing the total amount of wrongful tax credits to about $714,000.
