Sustainability - Sustainable Operations

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Starting from sustainable mining practices to ensuring long term access to our raw material requirements, we ensure that our approach is sustainable and takes into account stakeholder interests.</p> <p>We follow sustainable mining practices and seek continuous improvement in our environmental performance such as:</p> <ul> <li>Management systems and assessment tools: Impact identification and assessment, baseline studies, action plans for biodiversity protection</li> <li>Management of mining waste, sustainable ore extraction and processing</li> <li>Water resources management – preserving natural water bodies, addressing water scarcity, reducing water pollution, and supporting competing uses</li> <li>Mined area rehabilitation and closure</li> </ul> <h5>Sourcing sustainability</h5> <p>Our strategy to achieve sourcing sustainability is to have a mix of captive sources and long-term sourcing relationships with raw material suppliers based on productivity, cost and sustainability parameters.</p> <h5> Recycling</h5> <p>Recycling of aluminium and copper greatly reduces energy and environmental impacts. Aluminium can be recycled over and over again without degradation in quality. Aluminium recycling requires 95 per cent less energy than virgin metal. Our downstream units in India and Novelis manufacturing facilities in several countries have dedicated aluminium recycling and remelting facilities. We recycle process scrap from customers and scrap collected from the market together with our own process scrap. </p> <p> Our copper smelting facility at Dahej also undertakes recycling of copper scrap and recovery of copper from slag discarded by conventional production activities.</p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="grid_3 innerpage_RHS""> <div class="in_section"> <div class="in_section"> <h3>In this section</h3> <ul> <li class="aboutLink"> <a href="/sustainability/overview">Overview</a></li> <li class="aboutLink"> <a href="/sustainability/local-communities">Local Communities</a></li> <li class="aboutLink"> <a href="/sustainability/sustainable-mining">Sustainable Mining</a></li> <li class="aboutLink"> <a href="/sustainability/sustainability-reports">Sustainability Reports</a></li> <li class="aboutLink"> <a href="/sustainability/corporate-social-responsibility">Corporate Social Responsibility</a></li> <li class="aboutLink"> <a href="/sustainability/regulatory-compliances">Regulatory Compliances</a></li> </ul> </div> </div> <div class="in_section" style="display:none;"> <h3><img src="/Hindalco/images/brands_icon.gif">Hindalco Brands</h3> <div class="imagebg_box"> <div class="slider"> <div id="Div1" class="flexslider"> <ul class="slides"> <li><img src="/Hindalco/images/hindalco_brands01.jpg" class="max-img"/></li> <li><img src="/Hindalco/images/hindalco_brands02.jpg" class="max-img"/></li> <li><img src="/Hindalco/images/hindalco_brands03.jpg" class="max-img"/></li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="in_section"> </div> <div class="news" style='display:none'> <h3><img alt="" src="/Hindalco/Images/news_icon.gif">Latest updates</h3> <div class="newsbg_box"> </div> </div> </div> </section> </div> </div> <div class="clear"> </div> </section> </form>  <footer class="footer"> <div class="container"> <div class="float_left copyright">Copyright © <span id="year-foot"></span> Hindalco Industries Ltd. | <a href="/legal-disclaimer">Legal disclaimer</a> | <a href="/beware-of-fraudulent-job-offers">Beware of fraudulent job offers</a> | <a href="https://www.hindalco.com/data-privacy-policy" target="_blank">Data Privacy Policy</a></div> <div class="clear"></div> </div> </footer>  <script type="text/javascript" src="/assets/js/jquery.min.js"></script> <script src="/assets/js/bootstrap.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="/assets/js/jquery.slitslider.js"></script> <script src="/assets/js/custom.js" type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript"> {document.getElementById("year-foot").innerHTML = (new Date().getFullYear());} function restoreli(type, li_id,spn_id) { if (type != "") { document.getElementById(type).style.visibility = "hidden"; } document.getElementById(spn_id).className = ""; } function showSubMenuli(type, li_id,spn_id) { if (type != "") { document.getElementById(type).style.visibility = "visible"; } document.getElementById(spn_id).className = "menu_active"; } </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="/assets/js/jquery.lazyload.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript"> $(function() { $(window).bind("load", function() { var timeout = setTimeout(function() { $("section.lazy").trigger("sporty") },800); }); $(".bg-img.lazy").lazyload({ effect : "fadeIn", event : "sporty" }); }); </script> <script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript"> $(document).ready(function() { $('.go_btn').click(function() { debugger; //Top1_txtsearch if ($('#txtsearch').val().length > 0 && $.trim($('#txtsearch').val().toLowerCase()) != 'search') { if (CheckChars() == true) { var s= $('#txtsearch').val(); window.location.href = '/search/' + $('#txtsearch').val(); return true; } } else { alert('Please enter search keywords'); $('#txtsearch').focus(); return false; } return true; }); }); function clickBtn(e) { var i = 0; var iChars = "!#^&*\\\';,/{}|\<>?" if (window.event) // IE { if (e.keyCode == 13 && $('#txtsearch').val().length > 0 && $.trim($('#txtsearch').val().toLowerCase()) != 'search') { for (i = 0; i < $('#txtsearch').val().length; i++) { if (iChars.indexOf(document.getElementById('txtsearch').value.charAt(i)) != -1) { alert("Search string has special characters. 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