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Environmental Performance
Recycling and Waste Management
Towards 100% Recycling
Since generation of waste cannot be completely eliminated due to limitations in processes or technology, ITC Businesses/Units are mandated to recycle all (100%) wastes. This not only conserves precious natural resources and energy but also prevents wastes from reaching landfills, with all its attendant problems like health hazards, increase in GHG emissions, soil and ground water contamination, etc.
Recycling also creates significant employment opportunities.
Waste Destination
The graph depicts the final destinations of total wastes:
We have ensured recycling of 99.9% of waste generated, although the total quantity of waste has increased by 4%.
ITC’s Unit at Bhadrachalam which is India’s largest integrated Paper & Paperboards mill, accounted for 77% of the total wastes generated in ITC. What is noteworthy is that this Unit recycled 99.9% wastes in 2011-12. This Unit at Bhadrachalam generated 1127 kg of waste per tonne of paper/paperboard in 2011-12; an increase of close to 1% over last year (1116 kg/tonne in 2010-11), due to enhanced pulp production to substitute imported pulp over the previous year. However, this is better than the performance of all other integrated mills in India. According to the Centre for Science and Environment Report, ‘All About Paper’ (2004), similar mills generated 1,200 kg of solid waste per tonne of paper.
In 2011-12, ITC generated 277,069 tonnes of fly ash (41.7% of total waste in ITC). This is 3.9% less than the previous year, due to better utilisation of carbon neutral fuel such as biomass thus reducing coal consumption.
In line with our commitment to consolidate our waste recycling positive status, many of our Units, are already progressing towards zero waste discharge.
The following Units reused/recycled entire wastes (more than 99%) generated out of their operations:
Cigarette factories at Munger, Bengaluru, Saharanpur, Kolkata and Pune, Paperboards & Specialty Papers Units at Bhadrachalam, and Tribeni, Personal Care Business Units at Haridwar and Manpura Foods Business Unit at Pune, the ITC Green Centre at Gurgaon, Surya Nepal’s Cigarette factory at Simra and Hotels – ITC Maurya, ITC Maratha, ITC Grand Central, ITC Windsor, ITC Mughal, ITC Gardenia, ITC Kakatiya, ITC Sonar, My Fortune, Chennai, ITC Rajputana and WelcomHotel Sheraton New Delhi.
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