: IPHCIA to adopt affordable products that meet green criterion #finance #StockMarketNEWS #Business Staff Reporter Margao The Indian Home and Personal Care Industry Association (IHPCIA) in a recent

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Staff Reporter

Margao

The Indian Home and Personal Care Industry Association (IHPCIA) in a recent round table meet held in the state have discussed the adoption of clean, affordable and sustainable products from renewables as well as to showcase innovation in the field.

Members of the association recently met in the state to discuss its Sustainable Cleaning initiative by aiming for affordable concentrated cleaners that meet the green criterion. Stakeholders in the industry discussed the topic and developed an action plan. The meet was part of the sixth ISDC 2022 convention that also showcased innovations from nine leading academic institutions in the country.

IIT Kanpur representative Jayant Singh, founder director Sanjay Trivedi and MD Godrej Industries Ltd Nadir Godrej in a press briefing detailed the Sustainable Cleaning initiative. They said that India had to make ingredients and develop products that met the green criterion.

“The way forward is to make the building blocks from palm stearin (a by-product when producing palmolein), ethanol derived from molasses for making ethylene oxide and derivatives, sugar esters and glycerol esters and other green surfactants from renewables. Biotechnologies developed by academia can also make surfactants from Lipids and offer long term indigenous solutions. The technologies for all the above building blocks have been commercially established. Producers of edible oils, sugar and glycerine can produce the building blocks,�? they said.

Affordable and ultra-concentrated products can be made by blends of surfactants and will reduce use of water, save energy, reduce use of plastics and be a major step toward meeting the climate change criterion, they added.

Currently, the Indian home care industry makes detergent powders using Linear Alkyl Benzene (LAB) derived from fossil sources. These products with low active content are packed in 1 kg multi layersplastic bags.

This result is serious pollution with over 15 million bags per day disposed of as solid waste. The powders account for over 65% of home care products and are not aligned with UNSG 3,6,9,12 goals and have a large CO2 footprint.

The IHPCIA’s activity in this regard began five years ago by collection and recycling of used toilet soaps from four and five-star hotels in western India and providing kits to over 1,200 students in primary schools in the North Konkan region. The intention now is to extend the initiative to IHPCIA’s members who make toilet soaps and hand sanitisers to support the initiative by supplying toilet soaps to schools across the country.