An Overview of Applying the Sustainability aspects and the Hazardous Waste Management in a Chemical industry in India

Abstract

The hazardous waste management in the chemical industry has been monitored from April 2021 to March 2022. All different kinds of hazardous waste were segregated by the concerned department and handed over to the environmental department. Different types of hazardous waste were handled, stored, and disposed of as per the directions, which are provided in the combined consent of operations. We have followed the hazardous waste management rules 2016 for handling and disposing of hazardous waste. We have introduced a sustainable initiative, where the spent salt from the effluent treatment plant, fly ash from the boiler and spent carbon from the process have been mixed in a suitable proportion in the form a utilizable waste, which is having higher calorific value has been sent in the cement industry in the regular basis. In this way, we are not only utilizing the hazardous wastes but the various heavy metals such as Arsenic, Chromium, Mercury, Molybdenum, Nickel, Lead, Selenium, Zinc and Copper, which are present in the spent salt, fly ash and spent carbon is not let out into the environment. In case this toxic waste is not maintained properly, it would increase the toxicity in the environment. Further, it will deteriorate the health of the employees and the contractors working in the working environment. We have taken the highest safety precautions while handling toxic hazardous waste so that we can protect the environment and occupants working in the hazardous zone. We have studied the literature and identified the various twenty-four numbers habitat, which includes seventeen trees, three herbs, two shrubs, one grass and one bamboo are the recommended plantation species, which can be planted in the fly ash storage area. Planting such type of species near to the fly ash storage area, will help us in absorbing the fly ash dust pollutants and the impacts of exposure to the pollutants of fly ash can be reduced in the occupational environment.