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In India around 10% waste is recycled successfully: CII Conference on Sustainability
by DebriN Synergy Business Simulation ServicesDr. Jitendra Das, Director of FORE School of
Management, a premier management school of Delhi - NCR region, was the
moderator of the session Resource
efficiency - Linear to a circular economy for Indian manufacturing - Challenges
and Opportunities, along with co-panellists; Mr Jeevraj Pillai Joint President – Packaging and New Product
Development, Uflex Limited; Mr Dheeraj Verma GM EHS and Sustainability,
JCB India Limited; Mr Saroj Banerjee Chief Environment Tata Steel, BSL Limited and Mr Sandeep Singh Chief Executive
Officer, Shuddhoday PMPL.
Dr. Das set up the tone of the session highlighting some
of the acute challenges in sustainability - carbon footprints and ecosystem
stating how eco-systems work while remaining interconnected and dependent on
other ecosystems. “Any by-product of one ecosystem in nature is used by another
ecosystem. Anything which is a waste for one ecosystem is a reasonably good
input for another ecosystem. It is the
example of circular economy. Recycle means bringing back to itself even small
components as well. If it is not possible for a business entity to entirely
eliminate carbon emission, they should start buying out carbon credits” he said.
The CII Conference on “Sustainability: Role of Industry
towards Environmental Sustainability” organised on June 28, 2019 at Hotel Holiday Inn, Mayur Vihar, Delhi.
Sharing
some industry data, Mr Jeevraj Pillai, Joint
President – Packaging and New Product Development Uflex Limited, said that in
India only 10% waste is recycled successfully of which - 30% in land fill; 20% dumped, 35% littered in
the environment compared to Sweden where 67% waste is recycled.
Incidentally,
one of the most successful countries in managing waste has been Belgium (95%)
with a goal to achieve ‘Zero Waste’.
Mr. Pillai, also elaborated on the current scenario of
reduction in carbon emission using PNG, reduction in VOC emission by using
energy curing systems like E-beam, LED Curing and using water based link and
using of incineration - one of several waste-to-energy technologies and other high-temperature waste treatment systems where
materials converts the waste
into ash, with energy recovery
in the process.
Mr Dheeraj
Verma, GM
EHS and Sustainability, JCB India Limited said that Environment being the
natural component of the earth where air, water, land, soil, flora, fauna are
all interrelated, hence protection of environment should be the prime objective
of all. Sustainable development has to be planned in such a manner that meeting
the need of the present can be done without compromising the ability of future
generation to meet their needs. He also talked about Circular economy which minimises waste and making the most of
resources
during production and consumption, through closed loop material flow while linking
the independency on virgin resource extraction and generation of waste at all
stages including pollution.
He said that the industry needs to move away from, the
current Linear Economy process where extract, produce, consume and
trash happen with little or no attention to pollution to a Circular economy with focus
on how can we consume good and services and yet not depend on extraction of
resource and ensure closed loops that prevent the eventual disposal during and
post production.
Mr Saroj
Banerjee
Chief Environment, Tata Steel BSL Limited, stressed upon organisation’s
aggressive sustainability goals in waste management including minimising of CO2
emissions by 2025 by utilising 100% blast furnace slag in cement production and
avoiding fugitive air emissions during transportation. He mentioned that TATA
Steel is the 1st Indian company to implement an internal carbon
pricing in the financial appraisal of capital project.
Mr Sandeep
Singh Chief
Executive Officer Shuddhoday PMPL, spoke
about various ways and means of water harvesting and water treatment and the hydrological cycle, affecting the environment
and the effect of which is already being faced.
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