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With GREAT TECHNOLOGY, comes GREAT RESPONSIBILITY ... and GREATER OPPORTUNITY...?
With GREAT TECHNOLOGY, comes GREAT RESPONSIBILITY ... and GREATER OPPORTUNITY...?
Some excerpts from my article on e-waste in the Outlook..
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SUSTAINABILITY - A NARRATIVE HIJACKED...
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ERM co-authors the CDP India Climate Change Report 2017
ERM co-authors the CDP India Climate Change Report 2017
The report finds that businesses in India are increasingly focusing on setting their emission reduction and renewable…
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Masood Mallick shared thisLook around you. The walls. The floor. The building you're in right now. Chances are, it's made of concrete. And concrete has a secret. If cement — concrete's key ingredient — were a country, it would be the world's third-largest emitter of CO2. Behind only China and the USA. One material - 8% of global emissions. More than aviation. More than shipping. More than any single nation except two. Here's what makes it worse: Even if we stopped making cement with coal... and powered every cement kiln with 100% renewable energy, we'd still have a problem. Because making cement doesn't just burn fuel. It releases CO2 from the chemical reaction itself. Calcium carbonate (limestone) -> Calcium oxide + CO2 That's not an energy problem. That's chemistry. You can't efficiency your way out of it. Now here's the brutal paradox: We need concrete to survive climate change. Flood barriers. Sea walls. Wind turbine foundations. Resilient infrastructure. Affordable housing for billions. The material destroying the climate is also the material we need to adapt to it. And demand is rising — in Asia, Africa, Latin America. Where a billion people still lack adequate housing. Where infrastructure isn't a luxury — it's survival. Are we going to tell them they can't build? Or are we going to fix the material? The solutions exist: C&D Waste recyling and recycled agregates. Low-carbon cements. Carbon capture at kilns. Geopolymers. Also.. Building with less. Designing for disassembly. These solutions work. They're proven. But they not not scaled. Not mandated. Not funded. Because the industry is profitable as it is. I am told that 70% of the "India of 2047" is yet to be built... How will it be built? Every building is a climate decision. — ReThink// #8 Challenge the obvious. Follow the data. #ReThink #Sustainability #Cement #Decarbonisation #Construction #ClimateAction #CircularEconomy
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Masood Mallick shared thisTake a minute to read this, to the end please... 1. 95% of the food you'll ever eat comes from soil. Not water. Not air. Not technology. SOIL. And we have roughly 60 harvests left. 60 years of food. At current rates. That's not climate fiction. That's the UN's own projection. Our children may see the end of agriculture as we know it. Let that settle... 2. One tablespoon of healthy soil contains 10 billion living organisms. More life in a spoonful than humans on Earth. Bacteria. Fungi. Protozoa. Nematodes. An invisible universe that makes every harvest possible. 3. Soil isn't dirt. Dirt is what we've turned soil into. 40% of the world's soil is now degraded. * Compacted by machinery. * Stripped by monoculture. * Poisoned by chemicals. * Eroded by exposed fields. We're treating a living ecosystem like a dead substrate. 4. Here's the math that should terrify us: Soil takes 1,000 years to FORM ONE INCH. We're losing it in decades. That's not spending inheritance. That's burning the family home to stay warm tonight. 5. The cruelest irony? Healthy soil is the LARGEST CARBON SINK on land. More than all the world's forests. We're destroying our cheapest climate solution, to grow food in ways that will eventually grow nothing. Regeneration is possible. Farmers around the world are proving it. But the "industrial model" of farming keeps winning. Because degraded soil still produces. For now. Until it doesn't. So, the food on my plate tonight came from soil. Will my grandchildren be able to say the same? — ReThink// #7 Challenge the obvious. Follow the data. #ReThink #Sustainability #SoilHealth #RegenerativeAgriculture #FoodSecurity #ClimateAction
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Masood Mallick shared thisYour city is on a list. You just don't know it yet. Chennai. Bengaluru. Hyderabad. Delhi. Jaipur. Lucknow. 21 major Indian cities will face "Day Zero" by 2030. The day the groundwater runs out. Completely. 100 million people. No water. This isn't climate fiction. It's NITI Aayog's official warning. And it's 4 years away. Why? India extracts more groundwater than any nation on Earth. More than the USA and China. Combined. 250 billion cubic metres. Every single year. We're draining ancient aquifers — water that took millennia to accumulate — at a rate nature cannot replenish. For what? Swimming pools in cities rationing drinking water. Car washes while borewells go deeper and deeper. Water-intensive sugarcane in drought-prone regions. Here's the obscenity: India receives 4,000 billion cubic metres of rainfall annually. One of the highest in the world. We let 80% of it flow to the sea. Unused. Unharvested. Unmanaged. We have a rain surplus... and a water crisis! That's not nature's failure. And we pretend there is no crisis. Until the last borewell fails. Until the tanker doesn't arrive. Until the tap runs dry. By then, it's too late. The water under your feet took 10,000 years to get there. We're emptying it in decades. Is your city on the list? — ReThink// #6 Challenge the obvious. Follow the data. #ReThink #Sustainability #WaterCrisis #India #DayZero #Groundwater
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Masood Mallick shared thisSomething fundamental just changed in India. No headlines. No fanfare. On January 27, 2026, India's environmental permitting regime was quietly transformed. For 50 years, Indian industries lived by the renewal calendar. Every 1 to 5 years, depending on your pollution category, you had to renew your Consent to Operate. The licence to run your factory. Your plant. Your operations. Miss the deadline? Risk shutdown. Documents incomplete? Delays. Different states? Different systems. Air consent? One application. Water consent? Another application. Hazardous waste? A third. A regulatory maze that consumed time, money, and management attention. On January 27, 2026, that system was quietly dismantled. The Government of India amended the Uniform Consent Guidelines under the Air Act (1981) and Water Act (1974). The changes are sweeping: 1. Indefinite CTO Validity: Consent to Operate, once granted, now remains valid until cancelled. No more periodic renewals. The burden shifts from proving compliance every few years to maintaining compliance continuously. 2. Consolidated Consent Air and water consents, plus hazardous waste authorisations: now processed through a single integrated application. One form. One process. One decision. 3. Deemed Consent for MSMEs: Micro and small enterprises in notified industrial areas now receive automatic Consent to Establish upon submitting a self-certified form. Paperwork replaced by accountability. 4. Third-Party Verification: Registered Environment Auditors can now conduct site inspections. Decentralised verification. Faster processing. SPCBs freed to focus on high-risk enforcement. 5. One National Portal: Within 6-12 months, CPCB will launch a single unified digital platform for all consent applications, inspections, and compliance data. Every state. Every industry. One system. 6. Faster Processing: Red category industries — the highest-risk — now get decisions in 90 days, down from 120. The philosophy has fundamentally shifted. Old approach: Periodic permission renewal. New approach: Continuous compliance monitoring. Old approach: Government as gatekeeper. New approach: Self-certification with consequences. Old approach: Paperwork as proof. New approach: Real-time data as evidence. This isn't deregulation. It's smarter regulation. Environmental standards remain. Compliance requirements remain. Cancellation powers remain. What's eliminated is the repetitive bureaucratic theatre of renewal. What's added is continuous accountability. This is India's quiet revolution in environmental governance. India is changing. Did you know? Is the world watching? — ReThink// #5 Challenge the obvious. Follow the data. #ReThink #Sustainability #India #EnvironmentalGovernance #RegulatoryReform #EaseOfDoingBusiness #Policy
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Masood Mallick shared thisThe Union Budget 2026–27 marks a decisive shift in how India approaches resource security and decarbonisation—treating them as strategic economic priorities rather than regulatory afterthoughts. The INR 20,000 crore commitment to Carbon Capture, Utilisation and Storage (CCUS) over five years is a particularly important signal. It directly addresses the competitiveness challenge Indian industry faces under mechanisms such as the EU’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism and provides a credible pathway for hard-to-abate sectors like steel and cement to remain globally competitive while decarbonising. Equally significant is the focus on building domestic capability across the critical minerals value chain—from exploration to processing. Duty exemptions on capital goods for critical mineral processing, along with support for rare-earth corridors in mineral-rich states, will strengthen urban mining and large-scale resource recovery. For industries engaged in recovering value from end-of-life materials, this recognition of secondary resources as strategic assets is both timely and overdue. The extension of duty exemptions for lithium-ion cell manufacturing in battery energy storage systems, and the rationalisation of excise duty on biogas-blended CNG, reflect a sophisticated understanding of how clean energy transition and circularity reinforce each other. These measures will unlock investment in recovery infrastructure and accelerate the shift from linear to circular industrial models. By placing execution, scale, and infrastructure at the centre of its approach, this Budget positions circularity as foundational to India’s manufacturing resilience and its Viksit Bharat ambitions—giving industry the confidence to invest boldly in sustainable technologies. On behalf of the CII National Committee on Waste to Worth, Re Sustainability, and the wider community of sustainability and circularity entrepreneurs, I extend our sincere gratitude to the Hon’ble Finance Minister and the Government of India for engaging closely with industry and giving us the opportunity to inform and contribute to the policy agenda. This openness to dialogue and evidence-based inputs has been critical in shaping a Budget that recognises circularity, resource security, and decarbonisation as strategic national priorities. Thank you Madam.
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Masood Mallick shared thisSolar panels won't save us. Wind turbines won't save us. Not alone. Renewables can only address 55% of global emissions. The other 45%? It's locked in materials. Steel. Cement. Plastics. Aluminium. The stuff everything is made of. Here's what nobody's talking about: When a building is completed, up to 50% of its lifetime carbon footprint is already spent... Before anyone switches on a light. Before the first heating bill. Before a single operational decision. Locked. Irreversible. Done. You can install solar panels later. You can retrofit insulation later. You can switch to heat pumps later. But you cannot un-emit the embodied carbon of the concrete, steel, and glass that built the structure. That carbon is permanent. Even if we achieve 100% clean energy tomorrow — material production alone will overshoot our 1.5°C carbon budget by 149 billion tonnes. Let that sink in. Zero-carbon electricity. Still climate failure. Because we forgot the materials. The energy transition is necessary. It is not sufficient. The material transition — circularity — is not optional. It's the other half of the climate equation we've been ignoring. Are we ready to talk about the 45% we've been ignoring? — ReThink// #4 Challenge the obvious. Follow the data. #ReThink #Sustainability #CircularEconomy #EmbodiedCarbon #Decarbonisation #ClimateAction
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Masood Mallick shared thisOne, solitary penguin... and everyone saw so many different things in that image. Set me thinking... They survived 66 million years. Ice ages. Volcanic winters. Continental drift. But they won't survive us. Every day, 150 species disappear. Forever. Not endangered. Extinct. The 6th mass extinction is underway. The last one killed the dinosaurs. This one? We're the asteroid. 1,000x the natural extinction rate. 1 million species at risk in the coming decades. Evolution doesn't have a reset button. Once gone, gone. The planet will recover. It always does. It just won't include everything we knew. Or possibly us. So... here's my take on why that solitary Penguin was walking to the mountain... Because it could see the end. End of habitat. End of story. — ReThink// #3 Challenge the obvious. Follow the data. #ReThink #Sustainability #MassExtinction #Biodiversity #ClimateAction #Wildlife
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Masood Mallick shared thisOpen your wardrobe. 30% of what's in there hasn't been worn in the last 12 months. The average garment today is worn just 7-10 times before it's discarded. A generation ago, it was over 200 times. We don't have a fast fashion problem. We have a relationship problem. With our clothes. The data is clear: Extending a garment's life by just 9 extra months reduces its carbon, water, and waste footprint by 20-30%. Not recycling. Not upcycling. Just wearing. The most sustainable wardrobe is the one you already own. Buy less. Choose better. Wear longer. Repair before replace. Alter before discard. Donate before dump. Fashion's future isn't just circular design. It's behaviour change. How many times will you wear what you're wearing today? ReThink// #2 Challenge the obvious. Follow the data. #ReThink #Sustainability #Fashion #CircularEconomy #ConsciousConsumption
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Masood Mallick shared thisThat recycling symbol on your plastic bottle? It doesn't mean it will be recycled. It never did. The symbol identifies plastic type — nothing more. Designed in 1988. Confusing consumers for 36 years. Here's what the data says: Of all plastic ever made — 8.3 billion tonnes — only 9% has been recycled. 12% was incinerated. 79% is still here. In landfills. In oceans. In soil. In us. We produce 400 million tonnes of new plastic annually. We recycle about 35 million. The math doesn't work. It never did. That symbol needs a redesign. So does our relationship with plastic. What single-use plastic have you successfully eliminated? ReThink// #1 Challenge the obvious. Follow the data. #ReThink #Sustainability #PlasticPollution #CircularEconomy #Recycling
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