NEW DELHI: Dabur’s Environment, Health & Safety strategies are directed towards achieving the greenest and safest operations across all units by optimising the usage of natural resources and providing a safe and healthy workplace. According to the BRR report of the company, systemic efforts continue to be made toward natural resource conservation by continuously improving resource-use efficiencies and enhancing the positive environmental footprint.
Waste recycle management
Dabur is addressing the critical area of climate change mitigation through several initiatives. These include treatment and recycling of waste, continuous improvement in energy efficiency, enhancing the renewable energy portfolio, better efficiency in material utilisation, maximising water use efficiencies and rainwater harvesting and recharge, maximising collection, segregation, recycling and safe disposal of post-consumer generated plastic waste under solid waste management drive.
Dabur has been closely working with the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Central Pollution Control Board, Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry and Confederation of Indian Industry in this plastic waste management programme.
Dabur has initiated a number of projects across India in collaboration with different NGOs and Central Pollution Control Board-approved Producers Responsible Organizations.
Under this programme, Dabur has collected more than 11,000 MT of post-consumer Plastic Waste (both recyclable and non-recyclable) from Urban Local Bodies Collection Centres in 27 states, with the help of 10 waste management agencies. The collected plastics waste is sent to authorised plastic recyclers and co-processing units like cement kilns for processing.
BRR report said that the Dabur initiated the Plastic Waste Management programme in 2018 and has processed/recycled 27,396 MT of Post-Consumer Plastic Waste under this programme till now. To date, Rs 11.85 Crore has been spent on this initiative. Taking forward this initiative, Dabur is committed to becoming a Plastic Waste Neutral company in 2021-22 fiscal by collecting, recycling and recycling 22,000 MT of post-consumer Plastic Waste from across the country, the company report said.
Some other initiatives organised toward solid waste management were:
- Organising Safaisathi training along with Swachh Sustainable in Uttarakhand, Telangana and Karnataka to sensitise the general people and motivate them towards the collection and proper disposal of plastic waste, including multilayered plastics.
- Motivated the participants to take an oath to better manage plastic waste besides participating in activities like tree plantation.
- Partnered with Paperman for a dive-site clean-up in the Neil Islands of Andaman and Nicobar. This exercise involved 4 professional divers who cleared 600 square meters of the Ocean floor, recovering 12 Kg of plastic waste which included sachets, plastic pieces and bottles.
