The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) has certified L&T’s A M Naik Heavy Engineering Complex (AMNHEC) at Hazira in Gujarat as a single-use-plastic-free campus. Making AMNHEC L&T’s first campus to achieve this significant sustainability feat.
The 750-acre campus houses several L&T businesses and around 15,000 people operate out of the campus. The seeds of the initiative were sown with a beach-cleaning drive that AMNHEC teams of volunteers undertook in 2024, which drew attention to the havoc wrought on the environment by single-use plastic (SuP). Soon, they formed a team with members from across the campus, including those from EHS, Stores and Purchase departments, to tackle the menace on a war footing. With inputs from CII and the concerted efforts of the team, the campus achieved an overall reduction of 45 metric tonnes of single-use plastic per annum through elimination, reduction, and substitution.
They replaced office dustbin liners with compostable materials, substituted tetra packs and plastic straws of soft drinks with recyclable PET bottles, packaged drinking water with steel bottles and glasses, and prepared buttermilk in-house instead of procuring it in plastic pouches.
CII subsequently carried out a stringent audit at AMNHEC, and on being satisfied, awarded the single-use-plastic-free certification to the campus on 25 March, 2025.
