2007-08 - Aditya Birla Nuvo, Ltd

ENVIRONMENT REPORTElements for the first time in India in 2005 and 2007 in 2 phases that are energy efficient by 100 KWH/T TonCaustic Soda Lye produced.At Jayshree Textiles in Rishra, the Effluent Treatment Plant has been upgraded to factor the expansion of itswool combining division. Three projects taken under the clean Development mechanism under the aegis ofthe United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) have been validated and are nowawaiting registration with the UNFCCC.At your Company’s Insulator Plant, the effluent generated is recycled for low tension insulators and whateveris not used is given to the cottage industries.At your Company’s Carbon Black plants in Renukoot and Gummidipoondi, vent scrubbers and zero leakagevalves block the venting of carbon black. So there are no off-gas leakages and energy is conserved.Steam and electricity are generated through channelizing of gases. The power so generated is used forcaptive consumption and the additional steam is sold to Hindalco, another of our Group Companies, which isin proximity to your Company’s plant in Renukoot.At your Company’s Fertiliser Division, mechanisms towards better environment management are well inplace. The Plant has Zeolite softeners, Deep Hydrolyser, Ammonia stripping systems, de-dusting systems, oilywater treatment systems, and guard ponds, supported by effective online monitoring system to safeguardthe environment.Process optimization, water conservation projects and using recycling treated effluent has substantially loweredthe plant’s water consumption.At Indo Gulf, the water consumption level has been reduced to 5.20 M 3 /Te of Urea, comparable to world classUrea fertilizer plant, as against the water consumption of 5.22 M 3 /Te of Urea in 2005-06 and the maximumspecified limit by the Government i.e. 8 M 3 /Te of Product.Indo Gulf Fertilizers is the first plant globally to register a Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) Project withUNFCCC in this sector. It has reduced CO2 emission (CERs) by about 60,000 Te and will continue to generateabout 25,000 Te CERs per annum. A few more CDM projects out of which, three CDM Projects have alreadybeen registered with UNFCCC.We have opted for rain-water harvesting in a big way. Our measures include, collecting rain-water in thelower benches of some of our captive limestone mines, water recharging projects, creation of water bodies inthe catchment areas for rain-water storage. This way we also provide water to communities that live inproximity to our Plants.At Jaya Shree Textiles we celebrate employees’ birthdays by having them plant a sapling.In sum, in the words of Theodore Roosevelt, “To waste, to destroy, our natural resources, to skin and exhaustthe land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of ourchildren the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed”.We bear this in mind. Always.(45)