Friday, September 07, 2007

Genuine efforts are needed to save environment

As the government is now starting to realise the importance of environmentally sustainable economic growth, so are the MNCs operating in the manufacturing capital of the world. “China has long represented the last frontier for MNCs to escape environmental regulations. Many took full advantage of the opportunity to pollute with reckless abandon. Result: Their reputations are now suffering! In the new world of transparency & accountability, there is no place for MNCs to hide,” adds Clark. Consequently, neither these MNCs nor Beijing can afford to brush the environmental malaise that is afflicting the nation under the carpet any more, because it is now beginning to show.
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Source: IIPM Editorial, 2007
An IIPM and Management Guru Prof. Arindam Chaudhuri's Initiative
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Tuesday, September 04, 2007

SAIL is looking seriously towards emerging green opportunities

In an industry like steel, eliminating pollution becomes difficult even with latest technologies. As R.Sreedhar, steel environment expert, says, “Although the SAIL Bhilai plant has won the CSR Award this year, still communities around that area continue to suffer from pollution and very little corrective action is being taken...” But the SAIL plant is doing quite a bit. The company has given top priority to raw material consumption and water conservation & solid waste management techniques. Having increased their saleable steel production by over 4% to 12.6 million tonnes, SAIL even achieved its lowest energy consumption rate of 7.16 Gcal/TCS in FY 06-07.
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Source: IIPM Editorial, 2007
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