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Our operating stations have an Environment Management Department (EMD) that is equipped with sophisticated instruments with Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) in place as part of the ISO 14000 directives. These procedures ensure adherence to mandatory standards. Some of our green initiatives are:

Controlling Air Pollution

Installed high efficiency pulsejet bag filters, electrostatic precipitators, scrubbers and dust suppression systems across various locations like DRI kilns, SMS, blast furnaces, submerged arc furnaces, coke ovens and sinter plants
Installed 23 continuous online and 40 manual ambient air quality monitoring stations around the factory to monitor air quality, with real time data being linked to the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) and respective state pollution control boards
Three mobile vans at Raigarh, Barbil, and Tamnar monitor ambient air quality
Waste gases burnt and heat recovered is used to generate power
Fixed mobile sprinklers suppress dust and fugitive emissions

Controlling Water Pollution

JSPL consumes 4.3 – 4.9 m3/tonne of water, well within the Corporate Responsibility of Environmental Protection (CREP) stipulations due to a recycle-and-reuse approach for conserving water, making our plants zero discharge units
Recycling of waste water generated during coke oven quenching, blast furnace, DRI kilns and rolling mill back into the process
Installed cooling closed-circuit effluent-recycling system
Re-using waste water from SMS outlet, DM plant, submerged Arc Furnace (SAF) and Sewage Treatment Plants (STP) in slag granulation, wet ash handling system, slag cooling and dust suppression and horticulture, respectively

Effective solid waste management

Power generation from coal rejects fines and middling in AFBC boilers
Reusing slag from blast furnace and fly ash for cement manufacturing and brick making
Using SMS slag after granulation for road making

Bio-degradable waste

Installed 3 tonnes / day capacity bio-methanation plant, in association with the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), Mumbai for bio-gas production
Collecting and segregating bio-degradable waste from residential areas
Installed paper recycling unit at Angul plant

Biodiversity and Eco-conservation

Organized tree plantation programmes, planting more than 2,83,000 saplings in 2013-14
Distributed saplings and preserved and developed 3 million plants over the last decade
Established Sanjeeveni botanical park, housing rare plants and foliage
Established nurseries for in-house development of rare floral species
Developed a bio-diversity nature park for exotic birds

7.4 mn+: Saplings planted till date