Another Feather in SEED's Cap

Says Shri Gandhi, "It has been a long and tough period of study, but all the effort has been worthwhile. This period of living and studying in Sweden and braving the extreme winter of the country has been an experience in itself."

Further, speaking on his international experiences, Shri Ashim Gandhi explained that, "It’s a totally different world, the awareness in European countries and specially the Scandinavian countries on environment is tremendous, issues such as waste handling, including its segregation and disposal, forestation, energy conservation, water management etc. are worth benchmarking."

There are regulations at the federal level to ensure that the products at the end of their life are handled and treated properly. Law mandates these initiatives of handling of waste such as tyres, batteries, vehicles, electrical and electronics equipment waste and plastics waste. Extended Producers Responsibility (EPR) is one such principle wherein the principal producers play a key role in managing the waste.

Various European countries have their own regulations which vary with the internal policy of each country, for example, each country may have different targets of collection, sorting and reuse of waste.

Now with the formation of European Union (EU) wherein most of the European countries are members, a unified policy for handling most of the products is being formulated by the European commission and parliament.

Which means that a non-EU country doing business with any European Union country will have to abide and respect the EU laws. This ensures a uniform policy at the entire EU level, thus ensuring the compliance of the environmental concerns at the EU level.

Now, besides handling his routine assignments at the corporate level, Shri Ashim Gandhi, as an immediate initiative said, "I am writing a paper on Socio-Environmental issues while developing and analysing performance indicators based on Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) guidelines for Aamby Valley City. This research paper would be a good document for Aamby Valley City and would make way for further research in times to come."