100% Utilisation of Fly Ash
We were able to utilise 98.2% of the 124,940 tonnes of fly ash generated during the year through brick making, road/embankment construction and use by cement factories as raw material.
Zero Solid Waste Units
In line with our endeavour to recycle 100% solid waste, the Cigarette factories at Bengaluru, Saharanpur and Kidderpore, the Leaf processing Units at Anaparti and Chirala, Packaging & Printing units at Tiruvottiyur and Munger, Paper mill at
Tribeni, ‘ITC Green Centre’ at Gurgaon, ITC hotels Maurya, Mughal, Maratha, Grand Central, Sheraton Rajputana, Sonar, Chola and Windsor recycled almost all (more than 99%) solid wastes generated by them.
Paperboards & Specialty Papers business
 The division accounted for 86.3% of our total solid wastes in 2006-07. The Bhadrachalam mill, the Company’s largest paperboards unit, alone generated 186,262 tonnes (61.3%).
The Bhadrachalam unit reduced the waste generated per tonne of board to 657 kgs (a reduction of
13.5% since 2004-05) – a very significant achievement, compared to other Indian wood and bamboo-based mills. According to the Centre for Science and Environment report, ‘All About Paper’ published in 2004, similar mills generate 1250 kgs of solid waste per tonne of paper.
Waste as Raw Materials
We used 167,913 tonnes of waste paper (9.9% more than 05-06) as raw material. The waste paper is sourced locally as well as from abroad.
Almost all (99.9%) of raw material used at the Kovai unit is waste paper, while the Bhadrachalam mill used 86,219 tonnes of waste paper as raw material in 2006-07.
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In the last quarter of 2006-07, ITC was able to recycle all the fly ash generated well before the time frame stipulated by the Ministry of Environment and Forests notification. |
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