Running a farm

Farm forestry can overcome the raw material scare

Chlorine check

The world moves towards totally chlorine-free bleaching

Where India stands

The demand for paper in India far exceeds its supply

On paper

Amrit Paper Mills

One Leaf Company SCORE 19.01% RANK TWENTY SEVEN

Mukerian Papers Ltd

One Leaf Company SCORE 20.01RANK TWENTY SIX

Grasim Industries Ltd

One Leaf CompanySCORE 20.65%RANK TWENTY FIVE

SIV:On the comeback trail

BILT Ballarpur

Two Leaves CompanySCORE 33.44%RANK THREE

Andhra Pradesh Paper Mills Ltd

Three Leaves CompanySCORE 38.50%RANK TWO

J K Paper Mills

Three Leaves CompanySCORE 42.75%RANK ONE

The Report Card

Opening the account

As the rating progressed, industry opened up

Network: reaching out

Civil society members become a part of GRP

The audit panel

The sounding board

The nitty-gritties

Adopting a comprehensive rating approach

The burning question

A recent study dispels all that your mother told you about recycling. It says that incineration is the best way to manage waste paper

Paperworks

Overall environment health of the pulp and paper industry is far from healthy Inefficiency in resource use plagues the industry

The resonance

The Green Rating Project has already had an impact on Indian industry and hopefully will have more

Bottom of the pile

The companies that have figured low on the ratings are characterised by more than one of the following features

The top bracket

The companies that have figured high on the ratings have more than one of the following features

Mautak will flower

In 2006-2007, a bamboo species will flower over vast swathes of Mizoram, Tripura and Assam. When bamboo flowers, it dies; usually a famine follows.…

On paper

Enter -The green rating project

Indian industry is huge. But most environmentalists believe it has done little to reduce pollution, which will only rise as the economy grows. …