Environment

New Delhi, 28th January 2022: Strengthening its rural welfare programme, Ambuja Cement Foundation (ACF) partners with Asian Paints to enhance the livelihood of 4.2 lakh individuals in nine villages through water and health initiatives in Visakhapatnam. As a part of Asian Paints CSR programme, ACF will act as an implementing partner for this project to revive water bodies, install water filtration systems and create awareness among the community on judicious utilization of water resources and health and hygiene for next two years. ACF will execute the work for revival of traditional water bodies and construction of water structures to increase storage capacity for drinking water. With this project, ACF aims to provide safe drinking water to 28,700 people from these

Bengaluru, December 21, 2021: The 15th edition of Myntra’s flagship EORS, being held from 18th to 23rd December, will be the most environment-friendly EORS edition to date, with a slew of environment-friendly initiatives undertaken by Myntra over a period of time. Investments in paper packaging in place of plastic packaging and solar power utilization, are two broad areas where Myntra has made significant in-roads in its commitment towards building a greener enterprise. Myntra operates 5 Fulfilment Centres (FCs) across India, of which the ones located at Bilaspur in Haryana and Bhiwandi near Mumbai in Maharashtra are solar powered. In addition to this, Myntra has enabled roof-mounted installation for a solar plant at one of its RPCs (returns processing centres) in

News Update/Press Release India, 13th October 2021: With a pledge to build a greener ecosystem and in observance of the International E-waste Day, ASUS India, Taiwanese tech giant, today announced a new initiative, #DiscardResponsibly, to evoke a sense of accountability amongst citizens. The new initiative is a step taken towards building a sustainable environment by creating awareness around the impact of careless dumping of electronic waste on the environment and at the same time, enabling citizens to dispose off e-waste sensibly. There is also a digital consumer engagement activity planned wherein two winners stand a chance to win exciting ASUS goodies. The campaign will go live on International E-waste Day, 14th October, and will run till 31st October.  With the rapid pace of innovation

news update /press release Pune 10th September, 2021: The 75th Independence Day of India, August 15th, 2021, marked a commitment to patriotism by Pune based emerging entrepreneur Anuradda Iyer. This day saw the launch of her venture Anusrii Fabricss in support of rural India. The ongoing pandemic has brought huge upheavals in income as well as loss of livelihood for many, especially the lower income group. Anusrii Fabricss will bring some reprieve for rural India, since all the products of the company will be sourced from there. The company’s brand – Sreeyanna, introduces sustainable fabric which is eco-friendly, and labelled – BREATHE HEALTHY ENERGGY.  The Founder of Anusrii Fabricss, Anuradda Iyer, has focussed on two pertinent issues while setting up

News Update/ press Release Pune, 6th September, 2021: Bridgestone India today commissioned a carbon neutral boiler plant at its Pune manufacturing facility. This initiative is part of the Bridgestone Group’s worldwide commitment to reduce its absolute CO2 emissions by 50% by 2030. Built in collaboration with Thermax Onsite Energy Solutions Limited (TOESL) the plant uses carbon neutral Biomass briquettes made from agricultural waste. Estimated steam generation with this Boiler will be 123236 Tons per Year at full capacity and considering above steam generation, estimated CO2 reduction will be 19396 Tons/Year. The boiler plant caters to the current steam requirements at the Pune plant.  Steam is utilized in tyre curing process to provide heat energy to stimulate chemical reaction between rubber

Bangalore, 25 August 2021: As part of its CSR commitment, Allergan, an AbbVie company, in partnership with Green Yatra Trust and Anand Malligawad, has taken on the task of rejuvenating the 28.1-acre Bingipura Lake to ensure that its water can be used for multiple purposes throughout the year. This project was inaugurated on August 11th, 2021, in the presence of M. Krishnappa, MLA Bengaluru South, J Manjunath, District Collector, Bangalore, Dy. SP Mr. Mallesh, Tahasildar; Mr. Dinesh, Gram Panchayat Chairman and Mr. Sadik Pasha & Members Jayakarnatak Janapara vedike & I care brigade Team and Bingipura villagers. This ongoing project involves the decontamination of the lake water, it’s desilting and the cleaning up of the streams that flow into the lake to