Good Food is First Food. It is not junk food. It is the food that connects nature and nutrition with livelihoods. This food is good for our health; it comes from the rich biodiversity of our regions; it provides employment to people. Most importantly, cooking and eating give us pleasure. …
Company that had an environment policy before GRP started J K CorpCompanies that adopted an environment policy after receiving CSE's questionnaireCentury Pulp & Paper Star Paper MillsPudumjee Pulp & Paper Mills LtdAndhra Pradesh Pulp & Paper Mills LtdSinar Mas Pulp & Paper LtdITC-Bhadrachalam Paperboards LtdSouth India Viscose LtdTamil Nadu Newsprint …
Being environment-friendly is not only a moral obligation, it also makes good economic sense... I think ultimately a country like India cannot be governed by accepted regulations, so we must develop a more participatory style of management and regulations which rely more on self-performance and self-improvement rather than mere regulations. …
T he pulp and paper industry is one of the oldest industries in India: the first paper mill was set up as early as 1832 at Serampore in Hooghly district of West Bengal. But in terms of production capacity, the industry remains very small. The mills have an aggregate capacity …
Many recent pollution prevention efforts in the pulp and paper industry have focused on getting rid of the use of chlorine for bleaching, a process which helps to increase the brightness of the paper. Elemental chlorine (that is, pure chlorine) or chlorine dioxide is generally used for bleaching but, in …
Since the establishment of the first paper mill in 1832, the paper industry has been a pampered and protected one. The government has consistently helped industry exploit the country's forests and rural poor by supplying raw materials at unrealistically low prices. In 1981-82 for instance, the paper industry paid the …
For most of us, recycled paper means coarse handmade sheets marketed by Khadi Gram Udyog or fashionable stationery stores. What we don't know, and what consumer goods-manufacturers do not consider worth telling us, is that almost all the brightly-coloured paper board that is used for packaging items of daily use …
In comparison to some industries like mining, which are inherently unsustainable because the natural resources they exploit are non-renewable, the paper and pulp industry seems less environmentally-damaging. The units rely on raw materials, mainly wood fibres and water, which are renewable, and the product they manufacture
The period between 1992-93 to 1995-96 was the boom time for the Indian pulp and paper mills. According to The Stranger , published by Greenpeace, the mills enjoyed a profit range of 40-100 per cent on an average, while US mills showed only 10 per cent profits. But this financial …
The pulp and paper sector must steadily move towards sustainable industrial development. Here are some actions which could help: INPUTS sourcing of wood: Although the 1988 National Forest Policy does not allow raw materials sourcing from gov ernment forests, the government has not made any plan to work with the …
J K Paper Mills ( jkpm ) of Raygada in Orissa has been rated the greenest paper mill in India. jkpm is followed by Andhra Pradesh Paper Mills Ltd ( appml ) and the Ballarpur unit of Ballarpur Industries Ltd. The significant feature of jkpm is a modern pulping process …
This story began with an early-morning phone call. "Do you know,' the caller said, "Toyota, TELCO and General Motors are ganging up to start a pro-diesel campaign? They plan to take journalists on freebies to see excellent diesel technology across the world.' Intrigued, I asked if the caller knew anyone …
Despite knowing that spm levels are extremely high in Delhi and that fine particles from diesel exhaust kill, trans national auto manufacturers in India evade the issue of diesel exhaust completely and spread total disinformation, especially as they know there is nobody in the government to question them. They are …
The questionnaire sent by CSE's Right To Clean Air Campaign to senior executives of transnational carmakers selling diesel cars in India: • We presume that you know that suspended particulate matter levels are very high in a city like Delhi; that respirable particulate matter is extremely carcinogenic; and that diesel …
On May 18, 1999, the United Nations Environment Programme announced that it had elected Toyota Motor Corporation of Japan to the prestigious ranks of its Global 500 Roll of Honour for the company's "outstanding contributions to the protection of the environment'. It is well known that Toyota has been at …
Why has Daewoo not gone in for diesel cars when other car manufacturers are flooding the market with diesel models? It is true that some car manufacturers have introduced diesel models, luring customers with the initial price advantage and lower cost of running. But six months down the line, people …
Air pollution is one of the direct results of economic growth. With the introduction of economic reforms in 1991 in India, there has been a substantial degree of liberalisation in the car industry. Industrial growth in the country seems somewhat expensive when the tremendous costs to public health due to …
According to the World Health Organisation ( who ), spm is the most serious air pollutant on a worldwide basis. It causes the death of 460,000 people each year. In August 1998, the California Air Resources Board ( carb ) declared that particles in diesel emissions are toxic air contaminants. …
After slapping a legal notice on environmentalists Anil Agarwal and Sunita Narain, seeking damages worth Rs 100 crore (approximately us $25 million) for an article they had written in Business Standard on the threats posed to public health by the current trend towards dieselisation of the private automobile fleet, telco …
T he vulture is a very patient bird. It is waiting patiently for its next flight, which may very well be into oblivion. Meanwhile, experts try and figure out what is killing the vulture. Ornithologists fear that India's vulture populations have declined in recent times. The vulture has a host …
he was fighting back the tears. "I lost four sons last year; all of them were suffering from respiratory disorders,' said M Rasul, a middle-aged advisor to the ministry of food processing in Delhi, drawing attention to what air pollution can do to the residents of the capital. "Every time …
