Best CSR Initiative

       

Best Innovation in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)

CATEGORY WINNER

Tata Chemicals

Neti Subrahmanyam, Jacob Mammen and Sanjay Choudhary

Greening of alkaline and saline sediments

Soda ash producer Tata Chemicals has reclaimed 22 out of 30 acres of waste dumps near its site in Mithapur, Gujarat, to reduce dust generation that was affecting local inhabitants. For 20 years the dust had been suppressed by spraying with sea water, making the soil quality poor. Tata engaged The Energy & Resources Institute in Delhi which identified the most suitable plants and developed a microorganism inoculation to help them extract nutrients from the poor soil. At the same time, Tata developed and introduced patented filtration technology to prevent the disposal of soda ash effluent into settling ponds in the future.   

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Runners up in this category

Teijin 

Takeshi Muraoka

Teijin Group Design for Environment (DFE) guidelines

The environment, safety and health office at Japan’s Teijin has established a system to evaluate all its production process lifecycles, from raw materials procurement, through production, sale and use, to recycling and disposal, using six main criteria, Assessment is carried out by Teijin employees globally, following detailed checklists, with 82 questions on feedstocks and 95 on finished goods. So far 20 products and one production system have been assessed and approved. The programme is part of Teijin’s initiative to shrink its environmental footprint by 2020 - cutting industrial waste by 85% and chemical waste by 80% over 1998 levels.

 

AIME consortium

Allan Laing (chairman of AIME)

Improving supply chain integrity

Members of the Agrochemicals and Intermediates Manufacturers in Europe (AIME) consortium within Cefic’s European Fine Chemicals Group (EFCG) have developed and tested a unique set of voluntary guidelines and a business integrity evaluation (BIEN) toolkit. These are intended to improve supply chain integrity by combining the elements of ISO standards with business ethics to establish minimum requirements for non-cGMP fine chemicals makers worldwide. Using BIEN, supply chain customers are able easily to evaluate supplier compliance with the voluntary guidelines using their own staff, rather than expensive auditors.

 

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