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  • ITC Savlon Swasth India introduces ‘Swachhata Ka Gullak’

    ITC Savlon Swasth India introduces ‘Swachhata Ka Gullak’

    MUMBAI: As a part of ITC’s initiatives to support the Prime Minister’s call for ‘Swachhata Hi Seva’, Savlon, ITC’s leading hygiene brand, introduces ‘Swachchata Ka Gullak’, a unique community initiative led by school children.  The concept of ‘Gullak’, an earthen pot symbolic of savings for a better future was identified to reiterate the fact that tremendous value can be generated from waste if segregated at source.

    ‘Swachchata Ka Gullak’ is being deployed in schools across Delhi, Mumbai, and Kolkata under ITC Savlon’s ‘Swasth India Mission’ to help school children collect and deposit dry waste. The initiative was launched with the objective of sensitising students on the need for an eco-friendly life while also becoming community advocates helping segregate waste at source into dry and wet waste. More than 1 lakh students would be participating in this initiative. The dry waste collected through this drive will be recycled.

    ITC has implemented a large-scale “Wellbeing Out of Waste” (WOW) initiative, which focuses on providing an end-to-end sustainable and scalable solution for solid waste including plastic waste. The programme spans the entire value chain, right from awareness, segregation, collection to promotion, reuse and / or recycling of waste. This programme today covers over 89 lakh citizens across the country. ITC’s initiatives in waste management has enabled it to be ‘solid waste recycling positive’ for 12 consecutive years. In 2018-19, ITC collected around 16,000 tonnes of post-consumer plastic waste including around 7400 tonnes of Low Value Plastics (LVP) comprising of Multi-Layered Plastics (MLP) and thin films.

    ITC Ltd chief executive, personal care products business Sameer Satpathy said, "Transforming waste into a valuable resource is only possible if each one of us begins to actively segregate dry and wet waste. Savlon’s Swachhata Ka Gullak initiative is designed to educate school children to become environment super heroes for their schools, homes and neighbourhood. Hygiene awareness has been an intrinsic part of ITC Savlon Swasth India programme and with Swachhata ka Gullak we hope to sensitize young children for a more environment friendly future.”

    Venkateshwar International School, New Delhi, principal Manisha Sharma commented, “This is an important initiative by Savlon and an excellent engagement led activity that not only educates about waste segregation but also helps inculcate a habit of waste segregation. Students of our school and many other schools in the country are contributing enormously by championing the collection drive.”

  • ITC to use 100% reusable, recyclable or compostable packaging

    ITC to use 100% reusable, recyclable or compostable packaging

    MUMBAI:  Multi-business conglomerate, ITC Limited has pledged that over the next decade, going beyond its Extended Producer Responsibility, it will deploy superior solutions so that 100 percent of its product packaging will be reusable, recyclable or compostable.

    ITC also reiterated that it is committed to scale up its solid waste management programmes and sustain its leadership position as a Solid Waste Recycling Positive Company.

    ITC’s initiatives in the solid waste management of which plastic waste management is a significant component, aim at providing a 360-degree solutions framework to address the critical issue of waste management through packaging optimisation, resource conservation, recycling of waste generated in its operations, source segregation, collection, reuse and recycling. Already over 99 percent of waste generated in ITC’s operations is recycled. ITC’s holistic solid waste management initiatives has now extended to 10 states across the country, covering cities, towns, villages and temples.

    In a true spirit of public-private-people partnership, ITC’s waste management models including the flagship initiative Wellbeing Out of Waste, encompass community awareness, segregation, promotion of recycling and reuse through capacity building and development of social entrepreneurship. 100 per cent dry waste including plastic waste is sent for recycling.

    ITC Ltd managing director Sanjiv Puri says, “The problem of solid waste management is one of the epic proportions and requires each organ of the society and more so, enterprises that are large economic organs of the society, to make a meaningful contribution. Wellbeing out of Waste (WOW) focuses on providing an end-to-end sustainable and a scalable solution spanning the entire value chain right from awareness, segregation, collection and promotion, reuse or recycle of solid waste. The benefits of these are already available to 77 lakh citizens of the country and over time, we are going to scale this up and enhance our contribution to the Prime Minister’s Vision of Swachh Bharat.”

    “As a Company which is carbon positive, water positive and solid waste recycling positive for over a decade, ITC is committed to shaping a secure, sustainable and inclusive future through superior Triple Bottom Line performance,” he added.

    Other than the Wellbeing Out of Waste (WOW) programmes that is operational in cities and large towns, ITC has initiated a number of community-managed projects in villages and towns to address the issue of waste management. Under ITC’s Green Temple initiative, three of Tamil Nadu’s eminent temples are turning their premises into zero garbage zones by recycling the organic waste from daily offerings – benefitting both the temples and their neighbourhoods with cleaner and healthier surroundings.

    ITC is also collaborating with the municipal corporations of Delhi, Hyderabad, Bengaluru, Saharanpur, Muzaffarpur, among others to ensure cleaner and greener cities.

    WOW works by building partnerships, giving each stakeholder including rag-pickers and waste workers a role and responsibility and leveraging their capabilities as productively as possible. It optimises resources – using existing infrastructure where available and creating new where required.