Environmental management at Surya Roshni Ltd. includes the sustainable handling of energy, water, waste, and chemicals as well as the control of air pollution. Above that, the environmentally conscious design and recycling of products play an important role. These objectives are defined in our EHS guidelines and are therefore mandatory for all locations of operation across the country. In order to continually monitor the degree of achievement of our objectives for environmental protection, we have created an organization with clearly defined areas of responsibility and a system management, certified according to the international standard ISO 14001 for continuous improvement processes.
The responsibility towards the environment is the primary concern of Surya Roshni Ltd. The responsibility for the protection of environment at the company level lies on the shoulder of the company management and is supervised by the EHS department which handles company-wide coordination and continued development. At individual plants, managers and their department heads are responsible for practical implementation. The plants receive support and advice from our environmental experts on energy, water, waste, chemicals, and air pollution.
A. Mercury Containing Lamps
Surya Roshni avoids waste in a possible manner. Our lamps only contain a minimum amount of environmentally damaging substances and we do not use unnecessary packaging materials. Our packaging material is eco-friendly (as maximum as possible). We continuously work on improving our products to make them as recyclable to the possible extent. When developing new products, we reduce the number of harmful substances or, if possible, completely replace them with harmless substances.
Fluorescent lamps and discharge lamps contain small amounts of mercury and valuable raw materials such as rare earth. That is why these products should not be thrown out with the garbage or other glass, but has to be collected separately and recycled or be disposed of safely.
The products of the lamp industry are unique in terms of disposal. Approximately 80% of all used equipment are lamps, but they only account for 1% of the total electronic waste by weight. Our products are fragile and therefore also need to be handled in a specific way at the end of their life. The high quantity, the necessary small-scale logistics, and the requirements for handling these products call for the tailor-made organization for best recycling results.
Incandescent lamps and halogen lamps consists of glass and metal and do not contain any harmful substances. Therefore, these two product families are generally not within the scope of the WEEE directive.
B. Consumer Appliances
Electrical consumer appliances as Electric fan, large cooling appliances, Electric stoves, Electric hot plates, Electric heating appliances, Electric radiators, Electric kettle, Electric iron etc., covered in new e-waste rules.
As a responsible producer we are meeting obligations under e-waste rules for our EOL products through authorized recyclers for proper disposal and complying as per E-Waste management rules 2022.
As per the modalities under new e-waste rules, recyclers are made responsible to collect e-waste from the market and generate EPR certificate to the producers. Subsequently as Producer /Brand owner will have to fill up the return in the relevant EPR portal against obligation.
Taking into consideration the specifics already described, to channelized the EOL Lamps to disposal site adopted reverse logistic system to collect the EOL Lamps from consumer to retailer, retailer to distributer and to collection points. EOL collected at Collection point transported to our manufacturing site where we have installed Lamp recycling unit (disposal facility). As safe disposal of Lamps especially mercury contained Lamps need to disposed in controlled conditions.
Having several collection points throughout pan India. These Collection points transported EOL Lamps to Manufacturing plants for safe disposal. Taking utmost care while returning End of Life lamps
Taking into consideration the specifics already described, to channelized the EOL Lamps to recyclers disposal site.
To Channelized the EOL consumer appliances, an agreement is made with authorized recyclers to collect the same from market and disposed it in approved manner and generate and provide EPR certificates as per guidelines in E-Waste management rules 2022.
For the e-waste generated during the assembling of lamps at our manufacturing plants
Procedures for Mercury Lamps
Various recycling procedures have been established for the recovery & reuse of exhausted mercury containing lamps and discharge lamps for both stationary and mobile operations. These procedures aim at neatly separating the components of the lamps and reusing the remaining material wherever possible. Clean glass is used for the production of new lamps and mixed glass is recycled with other glass. Metal parts go into metal recycling and plastics are mainly recycled thermally. Phosphors and blown out or rinsed out can be used for industrial processes. The recovered mercury is recycled and reused in Lamp manufacturing. This is how recovered lamp materials are reused by Surya Roshni team to produce the cost-effective and reliable products. Using the recycling material might take a little extra effort on our part but we are sure enough that our contribution will create a big difference in the world.
EPR for E-Waste
For the recycling of EOL Lamps and Electrical consumer appliances, we placed in the market as producer. We dispose it through the registered recyclers under EPR and receive certificate of e-waste disposal from the registered recycler for compliance of obligations as per guidelines in E-Waste management rules 2022.
Subsequently as Producer /Brand owner will have to fill up the return in the relevant EPR portal against obligation.
EPR for Plastic Waste
Plastic for the packaging of Products like Bopp tape, blister packing, carry bags, PVC tape, etc., we placed in the market. As a responsible PIBO we dispose it through authorized recyclers under EPR and receive certificate of e-waste disposal from the registered recycler for the compliance of obligations as per guidelines in Plastic Waste management rules 2016.