The Garment industry in the Indian subcontinent is big, thriving on business from Europe and the Americas. Over the years, they have maintained good standards in terms of quality of material and workmanship as well as timely deliveries, which is why the West has always been looking to the East for its needs to adorn its people.

The garment industry also employs thousands as part of their workforce, mainly women, who have to be trained, motivated and looked after.

There are two types of major wastes generated in a garment manufacturing unit. One is the cloth off-cuts and the other is sanitary napkins.  For a while, the cloth waste was picked up by vendors and sold to the manufacturing industry to be used as waste cloth. The garment units were getting some revenue out of this. At some stage the industry preferred to use actual cotton waste specially made for cleaning and this reduced their offtake. Vendors then stopped picking up the waste from the garment units. This resulted in piling up of waste.

In one town in Southern India which prides itself of its garment making capability, a mini mountain suddenly emerged, posing a serious fire hazard.

Meanwhile, with no proper disposal option, sanitary napkins were thrown into the sewage causing blockage of the line.

Haat has offered solutions to both these problems. The garment units now can rest easy that their cloth off-cuts can be conveniently incinerated using a Haat incinerator with air pollution control equipment as necessary. This also presents a pretty picture to visiting overseas buyers with no waste pile up and helps in maintaining a clean atmosphere.

The sanitary napkin problem is resolved easily using a Haat no-smoking fuel-less free burning trash destructor.

Haat’s incinerators are working in India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka for these garment industry applications quite successfully over the last 2 decades.