| The Rajahmundry-based paper mill's MDP envisages phasing out its existing old process technologies which substantially reduces its water effluent load and air pollution into environment to meet the norms set by the central pollution control board as well as the state pollution control board for water effluent and air pollution. |
| "After the implementation of MDP, the water consumption will be reduced from its permitted level of 150 cubic metre (m3) per tonne of paper to 100 m3 per tonne of paper. The AOX level will also come down to one kg per tonne from its permitted level of two kg per tonne. The SPM level in recovery stack emissions will also be reduced to 50 parts per million (ppm) as against the state pollution control board's permitted norm of 115 ppm," APPML assistant general manager Kanna Rao told Business Standard. |
| Kanna Rao said that APPML, under its social forestry scheme, is implementing farm forestry schemes for conservation of natural resources and is undertaking massive plantations in degraded farmlands. |
| "So far 32,000 hectares were covered in the catchment areas under the forestry operations. Pollution control devices for dust collection were installed apart from electrostatic precipitators to neutralise dust pollution. Effluents after primary and secondary treatment were pumped through two huge pumps to the sand 'shaals' located over 612 acres of land in the middle of River Godavari with two different elevations at Turpulanka, six kilometres upstream of the factory for tertiary treatment," he said. |
| "The company has also taken steps to neutralise odour problem by installing non-condensable gases handling system, the first of its kind in paper and pulp industry in India," Kanna Rao said. "The system is designed and supplied by Finland-based firm Andritz Ahistram Corporation at a cost of Rs 5 crore," he added. |
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