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REDUCING

EMISSIONS AND WASTES

Emission Reduction Effluent and Waste per policy. Centralized waste storage Wastewater
3
(m )
Initiatives Interloop has in place a well-defined facilities are established and operational 2,884,143
at all manufacturing plants where all
Heat Recovery System at environmental policy highlighting collected waste is temporarily stored 2,203,464
and placed before discharge or sale
Filament Yarn Dyeing Facility handling and discharge of effluents 1,772,530
and solid wastes (hazardous as well or treatment. A dedicated workforce is
Interloop has a state of the art Filament as non-hazardous). The company is deputed for waste collection, handling
Yarn Dye House equipped with the committed to work out the options for and discharge.
latest & highly specialized machines. zero discharge of effluents. Moreover, Wastewater
The Heat Recovery System provides target for 100% compliance of ZDHC FY 2017 FY 2018 FY 2019
the added advantage of economizing foundational level by FY 2021 is also Water pollution is a big hazard to (Years)
its operations to a significant extent. in place. Based on the environmental water resources and the problem is limits. Interloop has biological effluent
High temperature waste liquor passes policy, Interloop is also proactively worsening with industrial expansion. treatment plants at all manufacturing
through heat exchanger to raise the working on minimizing of solid wastes, facilities, treating effluent 24/7/365.
temperature of fresh water. Heated both hazardous and non-hazardous. Large quantity of water consumed The treated water is discharged into
water is used in subsequent dyeing The technology of Bi-Generation Preference to R-407 & R-410 The Section Head and Area In-charges in textile production gets polluted by industrial drains and the quantity of
processes with no fuel input, which system along with electricity produces Refrigerant at each plant are responsible for various chemicals used in the process. water discharged is measured though
reduces 140 tons of CO e emissions careful segregation of waste, which Consequently, it needs to be treated
2 around 20% of the total steam with flow meters installed at all effluent
per annum. significant reduction in GHG emissions. Keeping aligned with international is collected by waste stores through by reducing the pollutants to an treatment plants.
defined safe handling and disposal
acceptable range as per applicable
Waste Heat Recovery System WHRS has reduced 5,530 tons of standards, we prefer to use R-407 & procedures, to ensure compliance as local laws and ZDHC foundational
R-410 refrigerants, gradually eliminating
(WHRS) CO e in FY 2019.
2
the usage of R-12 & R-22 refrigerants,
We are harnessing free steam from which have been banned globally Unit FY 2019 FY 2018 FY 2017
Waste Heat Recovery (WHR) Boilers. due to their harmful impacts on the Wastewater * m 3 1,772,530 2,203,464 2,884,143
environment.
*Values for hosiery and yarn dyeing business

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