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As an organisation, Ambuja is conscious about creating a
positive impact on our environment and society. It is our
constant endeavour to find ways to bring about change
that will positively impact the environment without
compromising our operational standards. Safe waste
management is one of the biggest environmental challenges
faced by the country today. Ambuja is aiming to provide
state-of-the-art waste management services to the industry
and society through waste co-processing in cement kilns
under our Geocycle brand. We aim to utilise wastes from
different industrial, agricultural, and municipal sources as
alternative fuels and raw materials (AFR) that can help in
conserving scarce conventional fuels used in our kilns and
captive power plants (CPPs), to achieve our goal for
sustainable development and mitigation of climate change.
The quality of the end product, operational control and
occupational health & safety of the employees remain the
chief concern during co-processing. Co-processing helps
in substitution of fuels, recycling and elimination of waste,
and also facilitates the scientific destruction of wastes that
cannot be recycled and/or reused. In some cases, trial runs
becomes necessary for regulatory approval. Business advantage accrues in the form of energy costs, energy
security, and reduced consumption of scarce resources. |
Ambuja has been working with Geocycle to expand waste
streams and ensure that they are available & used efficiently
through better sourcing and marketing. Other measures by
the Company include advocacy for enabling a policy
framework to promote the use of AFR; plant AFR potential
profiling; installation of infrastructure & machinery for
handling and storage of AFR; and testing facilities for AFR.
Waste consumption increased substantially in 2014.
The range of waste streams also increased significantly
and catered to new customers.
With higher utilisation of
alternative fuels and raw materials, Geocycle has also made
significant contribution towards replacing traditional fuels.
The year 2014 also marked the year of the final set up of
our pre- processing platforms in four locations.
New and more
automated installations will enable Geocycle to accept varied
waste streams from across India & make them compatible
for co-processing in kilns. Geocycle has also focused on
strengthening the ACert implementation for comprehensive
assessment of all operations related to co-processing. |
