But Walker has a word of advice to the official monitoring agencies. ''While we have reasonable laws in place, their enforcement should be uniform. He is clearly referring to firms which get away with unfair practices. It's all about attitude,'' says Prakash R. Rastogi. Our measures have never been dictated by local legislations. Being part of an international group, we've always tried to strictly adhere to international standards.
Many companies dump it as manure.
The amount of waste it generates has been coming down, reducing its cost of waste-disposal. The consumption of water too, has been pruned from 1,600 cubic litres per day to 1,000 cubic litres. Today, Clariant is working towards an ISO 14001 certification. For, that will boost the company's exports which account for 25 per cent of its turnover. The company is sure that it'll bag the certification because of its environmental management system.