Utilisation of Waste- A Novel Approach Towards Cleaner Environment

Increasing concern for environment protection, growing cost of waste disposal, depleting natural resources, growing economical constraints have put the metallurgical industries under tremendous pressure to find ways and means for waste utilization and also to reduce waste generation. As a result the emission level and waste discharge are lower today than what was a few years ago. Still vast scope exits for improvements. This paper deals with utilization of some of the wastes generated in iron and steel and non-ferrous industries. Utilization of steel making slag, blast furnace slag, lime fines, mill scale, fly ash from steel and red mud from non ferrous industries have been considered as examples.