Eco Profit

The objective of the ECOPROFIT initiative is to establish a win-win model that strengthens industries economically by using environment-friendly technologies and simultaneously improves the ecological situation of the region. It enhances the efficiency of industries, reduces demand of raw materials and energy, and minimizes associated environmental impacts.

This model of sustainable development focuses on the application of preventive environmental strategies by adopting best available measures at various levels including the integration of technology, raw materials, processes, waste / emissions, products, involves business partners and employees.

A group of nine industries, from various manufacturing sectors like automotive, confectionery, electrical appliances, electroplating etc., have been trained under the current project. A team from each participating industry is responsible for dissemination of appropriate information, share knowledge and know-how with other members from time to time to develop and maintain a self sustaining force to carry out the activities in future on their own. This provides the continuity to the project even in the absence of external experts / trainers.
The participating companies also contributed to two thirds of the project costs, while additional funding was from GTZ ASEM, on a public-private partnership basis.

• Sustainable Urban Habitat (SUH)
• Sustainable Industrial Development (SID)
  • Industrial Estate Planning (AP)
  • Industrial Disaster Risk Management
  • Eco Profit
  • WM-dump: Contaminated Sites
  • Madurai Eco Electroplating Park
  • Monitoring and Analysis of Voss (Air lab)
  • National Reference Trace Organics Laboratory
  • WMe: E-Waste
• Sustainable Environmental Governance (SEG)
• Sustainable Consumption and Consumer Protection (SCCP)
• Cross Cutting: Climate Change
• Cross Cutting: Human Resource Development Programme (HRDP)