| Charter
on Corporate Responsibility for Environmental Protection Chlor
Alkali
- Complete
recycling of mercury bearing effluent by December 2003.
- Installation
of continuous on-line mercury analyzer by June 2003.
- Treatment
of cell-room ventilation gas – limit for mercury not
to exceed 1 gm/t of product by December 2005.
- De-mercurisation
of caustic soda & limit for mercury in caustic soda at
0.1 gm / of product by December 2004.
- Reduction
of mercury in H2 gas at 0.5 gm/t by December 2004.
- Installation
of common full-fledged salt washery unit at source by Dec.
2003.
- Capping
of existing completed disposal sites by June 2004 (Action
plan to be submitted by June 2003).
- Installation
of mercury distillation units by June 2003.
- Brine
sludge treatment and water leachable mercury content in brine
mud at < 0.1 mg/l before disposal in Secured Landfill.
- Reduction
of mercury consumption at < 50 gm/t of product by December
2005.
- Total
mercury release to environment at < 2.0 gm/t of product
by December 2005.
- The
mercury cell plants will switch over to membrane cell technology
in a time bound manner for which action plan will be prepared
by respective plants within six months.
- Industry
to submit action plan covering the pollutional and safety
aspects for Cl2 handling to prevent any accident / release
of Cl2, within three months.
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