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It is our pleasure to share that Galaxy was selected as one of the finalists in Asia Sustainability Reporting Awards (ASRA) 2019 in Asia’s Best Environmental Reporting category for our 8th Sustainability Report 2018-19.

The winners were selected from 461 entries received from 16 countries in Asia. The 2019 ASRA saw 80 shortlisted companies from 13 countries competing in the finals across 19 awards categories.

In the wake of climate change, air pollution, and water scarcity; every effort counts. One of our Sustainability Goals 2020 is focused on tree plantation of 25000 trees. On 22nd July, Galaxites contributed towards cleaner environment through CSR project in tree plantation and water conservation. More than 30 volunteers, in collaboration with NGO-Hariyali, planted over 100 saplings and built a mini check-dam for water conservation in Rabale Forest Area. This effort will lead to increase in green cover along with biodiversity and replenishment of water table.

Objective: Minimizing impact on climate change through effective logistics management.

We reduced our carbon footprint through effective logistics management. Several initiatives are undertaken in upstream and downstream logistics to reduce our carbon footprint. In our upstream activities, we optimized our supplies of a key raw material.

This resulted in reducing our carbon footprint by 399 MT CO2 equiv. cumulatively of which 251 MT CO2 equiv. was achieved just in FY 2015-16. In our downstream activities, we collaborated with our key customers for more efficient transportation through optimum utilisation of ISO tank capacity.

This project yielded reduction of carbon footprint by 740 MT CO2 equiv. in five years with 178 MT CO2 equiv. reduction in FY 2015-16.

Objective: To reduce consumption of plastic material

With focus on green sourcing and sustainable value chain, Galaxy tries to improve its processes continuously. We realized that there was a potential of reducing plastic consumption in packaging. Our Sourcing team decided to undertake a joint project with Quality Assurance team in reducing the plastic consumption by means of weight reduction of packaging material.

The project was initiated with key suppliers and trials were conducted. As a result of constant efforts in planning and packaging management, we were able to reduce our plastic consumption by 125 MT in FY 2015-16. This has significantly reduced our ecological footprint of our products.

Project Location: GCE, Egypt Plant

Reduction in process waste generation by reducing sulfated mass generation during sulphonation planned startups. We follow the practice of sustainable production and sustainable consumption. Efforts of reduced consumption are complemented by efforts of generating less waste in production cycles. Off spec material generated during plant startup is by-product of process.

Through our ingeniously developed interventions and system modifications, we have been abled to reduce generation of such mass which resulted increase in our resource efficiency and reduction in ecological footprint.

Project Location: GCE, Egypt

With rise in cost and environmental impacts of fossil fuel, it is important to find practical and helpful solutions to reduce our energy need. This project focuses to reduce cost and environmental impact of empty chemical paper and plastic bags sent for waste disposal.

With our commitment towards cleaner and safer environment, we continually work towards identification and reduction of risk and prevention of pollution at its manufacturing locations and surrounding. As per environmental law, empty chemical paper and plastic bags of raw material are classified under hazardous solid waste and must be disposed to approve agency. The empty bags are collected and transported in one ton jumbo bag. The transportation cost is huge as waste disposal company is far away.

The volume loaded to truck is reduced by using paper press machine. This machine will compress four jumbo bags into one thereby reducing total volume of paper bags to be handled by one fourth times. We are able to reduce the number of trips required which has resulted in reduction of such transportation cost by one-fourth. Further tangible benefits received are reduction in space required for storage and improved house keeping in plant area and scrap yard.

This project helped to reduce emissions due to transportation to waste disposal facility by 75%.

Our three-year project “Adolescent Empowerment” in collaboration with NGO: SMVS got completed this year with positive outcome and impact.

Project Objective:

• Anaemia Reduction and Awareness
• Awareness and Improvement of Personal Hygiene
• Improvement of Menstrual Hygiene
• Awareness on Addiction and Health Hazards of Tobacco
• Savings Programme: Teaching adolescent the art of saving money
• Awareness on Sexual Harassment
• Vocational Training
• Reading Library in Villages

Over a period of time, our team worked with community members in five villages and 42 schools in Jhagadia, Gujarat, to improve the quality of their lives. Our target groups were young girls and boys between the age groups of 10-19 in rural and tribal areas of Jhagadia in south Gujarat, including dropouts/ non-school going children. In case of schools, we covered students from class 7 to class 10.

Impact of the initiative [refer table below]:

• Anaemia reduction: 26% for girls, 22% boys
• Menstrual hygiene: Falalin usage by adolescent girls – 95%
• Personal Hygiene Awareness: 90% using soaps for handwashing & 93% using nail cutter
• Addiction Awareness and health hazards of tobacco: 113 Boys and 56 Girls covered for awareness and out of which 13 boys and 6 girls quit tobacco
• Vocational Training: 55 adolescents enrolled for different training out of which 25 are working and earning an average of ` 3000/- per month
• Awareness on sexual harassment motivated students from a school in Jhagadia to form sexual harassment committee to stop this menace.