Creating Value from

Waste: Lessons from

Mahindra &
Mahindra

Made By-
Angiras Chawla
Khushi Pandey
Kunal Singh
Ratnesh Anand Chaurasia
Riya Chauhan
Vansh Batra
CASE OVERVIEW
• As Mahindra and Mohammed
• In 1945
• By J.C. and K.C. Mahindra & a friend Ghulam Mohammed.
• 1947 Partition - renamed Mahindra and Mahindra.
• By 2019:
• Operation in more than 100 countries
• Over 240,000 employees
• Services in 11 sectors and 22 industries
• 55 manufacturing facilities
• 10 R&D centers
 (M&M), India’s fourth-largest vehicle manufacturer
M&M’S Manufactured electric vehicles
LEADERSHIP • e-Verito sedan
IN •
•
e-Supro van,
e2oPlus compact car
AUTOMOTIV • Treo Threewheeler

E Incentivise of vehicle scrappage policies

SUSTAINABIL • reduced tax rates
• purchase price discounts
ITY • simplified compliance processes

Planning to invest over $140 million

 Industry employed 37 million people 7.5% of GDP

Factors
INDIAN •
•
Changing demographics
Lifestyle
AUTOMOBI •
•
Concern over pollution
Traffic congestion etc
LE Sector facing 17% decline in 2019
INDUSTRY • Industry Specific Challenge
• Policy changes
• Macro-economic factors
• Poor consumer sentiments
ZERO WASTE TO LANDFILL(ZWL)

•As the title suggests, Zero Waste to Landfill is a

philosophy of reducing the amount of waste that ends up
in landfill.
•Some benefits include:
•Cost
•Environment
•Marketing
•Compliance
 Zero Waste initiatives describe a longer-
ZERO WASTE term commitment to reducing waste
output dramatically overtime until
VS ZERO eventually the business creates no waste
at all.
WASTE TO
LANDFILL(Z
WL) Zero Waste to Landfill is a clear drive to
divert as much waste as possible from
landfill and is an achievable target
businesses take on as a goal.
 WASTE MANAGEMENT: M&M
Long history of managing waste by clean and responsible manufacturing.

In 2017, Anirban Ghosh took over the leadership of the chief sustainability
officer.

He was motivated by recurrent fires at the Deonar dumping ground in

Mumbai, which caused health issues for the residents.

The corporate sustainability group decided on ZWL, an internationally

recognized waste management system.
 Each part of the engine production
process generated both hazardous and
non-hazardous waste.

Production Non-hazardous production waste:

packaging scrap, wooden pallets,
related rejected engine parts.
waste
Hazardous waste: oil, grinding mud, and
oil-soaked cotton, Sludge oil-soaked
cotton in addition to empty tins and
drums.
Production Waste: Camshaft Grinding Waste
•Initially, it experimented with making paver blocks by grinding mud waste
•Next, it attempted to use the mud, along with bitumen, for road construction
•An innovation worked to use the grinding mud waste as a baking media in the production process.
•M&M’s focus now shifted to recovering as much value from the waste as possible.
•Magnetic separators were used to attract the ferrous materials
•When none of these innovations showed promise, the company finally decided to take the help of
external agencies to see if a better solution was possible.
 NON-PRODUCTION WASTE

Waste from utilities e.g., oil

Office waste e.g., paper, Cafeteria waste e.g., utensils,
from generator sets and
plastic and broken glasses food waste
batteries

Packaging generated a large

Waste from dispensary e.g.,
Most of non production amount of waste. Wooden
paper, plastic, glass, and
waste was non hazardous packaging was replaced with
biomedical waste
recyclable packaging.
 NON HAZARDOUS WASTE

5R
Reduce
Approach

Reuse Recycle

Refuse Rotten
Municipal Solid Waste?

• Waste collected by municipality or disposed off at the municipal

waste disposal site.
• It includes residential, industrial, institutional, commercial,
municipal , and construction and demolition waste.

What is Wet Waste ?

• It refers to all the kitchen waste that we produce.

• This is organic waste that can be recycled and converted into
compost.
• Restaurants, buildings and factories need efficient wet waste
management systems.
• Example – Vegetable peels , used tea bags, fruits, etc.

What is Dry Waste?

• Dry materials that have been contaminated with a hazardous

chemical waste.
• This waste must be handled, stored, and disposed of properly.
• Examples of dry waste: Contaminated soils. Dried chemicals that
are in scrapable amounts on various surfaces.
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