- The
workshop recognizes 'Cleaner Production (CP) Approach' as the right way for improved
mill management with economic gains and environmental advantages.
- Cleaner
production should be a self-driven industry-motivated approach. It requires the
motivated/committed management. The role of the Central Pollution Control Board
is catalytic and proactive.
- There
is a need for conducting CP audits and implementing CP options. Towards this end,
it is necessary to organize a brainstorming session for senior executives on the
CP approach. Simultaneously, intensive CP workshop stressing on practical details
on how to conduct the CP audits through exercise is essential to initiate mill
personnel including operators/Pollution Control Authorities.
- CPCB
may take initiative to document CP experiences with details and disseminate such
information through Industry Associations. The Industry Associations should catalyze
mutual transfer of knowledge among member mills through these dissemination exercises.
- Industry
Associations may be requested to prepare information relating to:
- different
sources of funding/finance for CP implementations;
- expertise available on
providing support for CP audits/monitoring/screening; and
- agencies which
can offer equipment/technologies for CP -
CPCB may identify in consultation with Industry Associations such CP options which
need 'associated technology development' and such identified activities can be
entrusted to CPPRI and other laboratories and agencies pre-qualified for taking
up projects within a defined time-frame.
-
Organizations, like CPPRI, besides other agencies, in association with individual
mills, can conduct CP audits, select CP options and help monitor/evaluate the
CP efforts.
- In
order to ensure continued involvement in CP culture, each industrial unit associated
with pulp and paper production should submit annual CP reports highlighting its
achievements. The Industry Associations may take the lead in making it compulsory
for individual members mills to submit such reports.
- Participant
mills in CP efforts will conduct one workshop for the operators of the mills in
surrounding areas.
- CPCB/
Industry Associations may form a core group to evaluate/review such 'Cleaner Production'
report and come out with their on suggestions.
- Suitable
awards may be constituted jointly be CPCB/Industry Associations for best performing
mills.
- CPCB
may consider taking up the issue of scaling up of lignin separation and utilization
with Council of Scientific and Industrial Research funding in national interest.
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