Sustainability Report 2010

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ITC’s Triple Bottom Line

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Environmental Performance

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Waste Management

Recycle And Reuse

Zero Waste Units

In line with our commitment to consolidate our waste recycling positive status, many of our Units have already achieved the goal of being a zero waste discharge Unit.

Cigarette factories at Bengaluru, Saharanpur, Munger & Kolkata, Leaf Threshing Unit at Anaparti, Paperboards and Specialty Papers Unit at Tribeni, the ITC Green Centre at Gurgaon, Surya Nepal’s Cigarette factory at Simra and ITC Hotels - Maurya, Maratha, Grand Central, Windsor, Mughal, Kakatiya, and Sheraton Hotels New Delhi & Rajputana reused/ recycled almost the entire waste generated (more than 99%) out of their operations.

Wastes used as Raw Materials

Our Kovai Paperboards Unit, continued to use post-consumer wastepaper for the entire production and the Bhadrachalam Unit also utilised 27,778 tonnes of post consumer waste paper as raw material.

99.8% wastes generated within the units are recycled

	2007-08	2008-09	2009-10
Total Waste (tonnes)	352,970	490,180	578,865
% Recycled	98.9 %	98.8%	99.8%
Un-recycled Waste (tonnes)	3706	5893	1099
External wastes used as raw materials (tonnes)	163,245	125,337	125,931
Waste recycling footprint (%)*	145	124	122

* Waste Recycling footprint (%): (Waste recycled + external waste used as raw material) X 100 / Total waste generated in ITC

Creating Wealth Out of Waste (WOW)

ITC’s WOW initiative not only creates awareness among the public about the advantages of the “Reduce-Reuse-Recycle” process, protecting the environment, improving civic amenities, public health and hygiene but also generates cost-effective raw materials for the paper, plastics, metal and glass industries.

To emphasise the importance of source segregation, ITC provides special bags to accumulate dry wastes like paper, plastic and metals and arranges periodic collection through outsourced agencies. The waste paper is used by ITC and the other materials are sold to recycling industries. Segregated dry waste can save almost 40 % of municipal garbage handling costs, which can be utilised to improve civic amenities.

What started in a small way with households has now spread to schools, government offices, Corporates and other institutions. In 2007, the WOW initiative with an average monthly collection of 100 MT, spread itself across South India and in 2009-10, 25,000 tonnes of waste was collected through this initiative.

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