Zero Waste Australia

Hazira, August 25 The saying—convert waste into
wealth—has been truly put into practice by the Ruias-promoted Essar
Steel. It has been touted as the first Indian steel company to become a
zero waste and environment-friendly steel plant.

“We have adopted various measures to utilise the
plant waste effectively to achieve our goal of becoming a zero waste
company. It is our endeavour to make this world class plant into a
green plant,” said Dilip Oommen, Chief Executive Officer of Essar
Steel. Essar Steel’s plant at Hazira has an output capacity of 4.6
million tonnes per annum (MTPA) and generates 20-24 per cent slag and
less than one per cent dust.

The company has developed technology to use slag
for manufacturing cement, vitrified steel and build roads. Dust will be
used to make bricks by mixing it with rice husk. Other steel firms
simply dump these wastes, said Oommen.

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