Assessment of industrial waste management at washing machine industry
Student name: Ms Sakshe Vasudeva and Ms Tashi Tshomo
Guide: Prof. Arun Kansal
Year of completion: 2018
Host Organisation: IFB Appliances
Supervisor (Host Organisation): Mr J Karthikeyan
Abstract: The principle of this thesis is to look into the current waste management practices prevalent to a specific washing machine manufacturing industry, IFB appliances, located in the Verna Industrial Estate, South Goa. Washing machines have been placed in the lime light time and time again for their excessively demanding nature when it comes to water and energy consumption. However, little focus has been placed on the quality of solid wastes generated by this laundry-processing unit. In essence, the following study attempts to quantify and categorize the major waste streams generated during the process of manufacturing of washing machines for the base year 2017-2018. It follows the approach of adopting an input- output analysis for the different unit processes involved in the manufacturing process so as to ascertain the sources of waste generation and consequently gaining a better outlook on the types of waste generated. It further dwells into assessing the current waste management practices of the industry, which has been extremely proactive in it, endeavour to become a green manufacturing industry. Furthermore, in concordance with the existing nation-wide rules and regulations pertaining to waste management, this study explores areas where the industry could further incorporate better practices for sustainable management of its waste. The study concludes that the net waste generated in the manufacturing stage of washing machine production is 107 tonnes, of which the highest proportion of waste was found to be Stainless Steel (39%) followed by Galvanized pressed sheets(28%) and packaging waste (24%).
Keywords: Input and Output analysis, Material Flow, Waste Management, Hazardous, Washing Machine
