Godrej & Boyce: These are their ESG goals for next decade
-Double energy productivity by 2030 -Generate over one-third of overall revenues from Good & Green products by FY22 -Reduce carbon intensity by 60% by 2030 -All manufacturing activities across locations will continue to be water-positive and nearly zero waste to landfill -Introduce recycled
INOX, Pune: First cinema in India to install fast charging points for electric vehicles
Multiplex chain INOX Leisure Ltd has installed Ather Energy’s fast charging points, Ather Grid, in the parking lot of INOX Bund Garden, Pune. Ather owners can fast-charge their vehicle at a speed of 1.5 km/min, while Ather Grid also provides normal speed-charge options
Carpets Inter: Recycling and reducing waste
The company’s new collection Reuso is a high-performance modular carpet tile and environmentally friendly, as per their official press release. It is designed to ‘make use of every square inch of available product in order to decrease waste.’ The brand’s eco-friendly carpets, which
Bajaj Finserv: An employability programme with a new name and some new goals
Primarily aimed at making graduates employable for a wide range of industries, Bajaj Finserv’s employability programme is now called BEYOND. Under this, the company will be introducing new certificate programmes and building a placement division that will help beneficiaries find relevant career opportunities.
Tata Steel: Will start capturing CO2 and use it too
The company has commissioned a 5 tonnes per day (TPD) carbon capture plant at its Jamshedpur Works, making it the country’s first steel company to adopt the carbon-capture technology that extracts CO2 directly from the blast furnace gas. The captured CO2 will be
Myntra: Will do its cotton sourcing better
The fashion and lifestyle e-commerce company has partnered with Better Cotton Initiative (BCI), a global non-profit organisation heading the largest cotton sustainability programme in the world, to source cotton for its in-house brands. To begin with, Myntra will focus on sourcing 10% of
Tata Steel: Will recycle steel
The company has commissioned its new 0.5 MnTPA steel-recycling plant at Rohtak, Haryana. In a press release, it claims that the plant is the first such facility in India, equipped with mechanised equipment such as shredder, baler, and material handler. The scrap will
Let there be more Olympians
Lakshya Institute, a Rashtriya Khel Protsahan Puraskar winner, has partnered with Dream Sports Foundation (DSF), the philanthropic arm of Dream Sports, to support seven promising athletes across five sports in their pursuit of the Olympic dream. They are calling this mission ‘One Dream,
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Cadbury Gems’ ‘birthday’ party: A (very) virtual attempt to spread joy and gems
The press release did not provide much of an explanation except that the company wanted to host ‘a laughter-filled, adrenaline-pumping birthday bash’ and also ‘guarantee a gems-filled experience that was chocolaty, colourful and abundant.’ (All adjectives are theirs.) The rationale was that