The management is conscious of the environmental challenges to mother earth and is fully committed to meet its obligations to community and country.
The Jute Business at Muzaffargarh has a nursery of more than 25,000 plants, to plant in public places/schools in district Muzaffargarh and at Mills.
The Jute Business further replaced 109 old and inefficient motors with energy efficient ones under the US Aid energy conservation project and registered a saving of 10% in these motors. This was in addition to the 97 motors replaced last year under the same program. The Jute Business also replaced 232 tube lights with efficient LED light.
Jute is a natural fiber and used to make things such as sacks, rope, twine, hessian bags and much more. Jute products are 100% biodegradable and can also be disposed of without causing environmental hazards. It is being used extensively around the world especially considering its outstanding environmental benefits. So, the cultivation of jute locally may fetch the following environmental benefits:
We at Pakistan Papersack, consider ourselves to be friends of the environment. This philosophy has led to several collaborations with WWF including most recently in April when the two parties joined Lucky Cement to plant trees at Lucky Cement’s factory. Earlier in March, the PPD team also planted a 100 mangrove trees at the WWF Wetland Center. Mangroves are synonymous with the Karachi coast and the team was brought closer to nature as they visited the mangrove forest. A beach cleaning drive followed during which the employees removed hazardous plastic items from the Sandspit beach.