Background

The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) is pleased to announce the 6th edition of the 4R Awards 2025, which recognize and celebrate sustainable practices across industries and academic institutions. The 4R Awards embody the evolving understanding of sustainability, promoting a holistic approach to waste and resource management.

These awards honor organizations that are leading the way in sustainable waste management. By highlighting efforts in waste reduction, recycling, reuse, and repair, the 4R Awards shine a spotlight on companies making significant contributions to environmental conservation, economic growth, and societal well-being.

CII’s initiative underscores the growing recognition of the vital role waste management plays in protecting the environment, safeguarding public health, and fostering sustainable business practices. The 6th edition of the 4R Awards continues to inspire industries to innovate, adopt cleaner technologies, and work toward minimizing their environmental impact.

Objectives

Promote Sustainable Waste Management Practices: To encourage organizations across industries and academic institutions to adopt and implement sustainable waste management practices that focus on the principles of Reduce, Recycle, Reuse, and Repair.

Recognize Leadership in Sustainability: To acknowledge and celebrate companies, institutions, and individuals who are leading the way in sustainable waste management and demonstrating a commitment to reducing environmental impact.

Support the Circular Economy: To foster the adoption of circular economy principles by recognizing innovative approaches that reduce waste, conserve resources, and extend the lifespan of products through repair and reuse.

Inspire Innovation and Best Practices: To promote the development and implementation of cleaner technologies, innovative solutions, and best practices that contribute to waste reduction and resource conservation.

Encourage Collaboration: To facilitate collaboration between industry, academia, and government agencies in advancing sustainable practices and creating a shared vision for a cleaner, greener future.

Raise Awareness and Drive Change: To raise awareness about the importance of sustainable waste management and its critical role in environmental protection, public health, and economic growth.

Contribute to Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): To align with and support global sustainability efforts, particularly those related to waste management, resource efficiency, and responsible consumption and production (SDG 12). * SDG 12 is crucial for achieving broader sustainability goals, as it directly impacts environmental conservation, climate action, economic growth, and social well-being.

With this background, CII under its waste to worth initiative, this year has announced 6th edition of 4R (Reduce-Reuse-Recycle-Repair) Awards to recognize and reward best practices of industry, start-ups, research labs /academic Institutes in order to set a benchmark of excellence in waste management for large number of industries to thrive to adopt these best practices.

CII 4R Awards Categories

All the large industries, MSMEs and start-ups across the sectors and also the research labs / Academic Institutions can apply for below categories:

CII 4 Awards 2025 Categories

• Excellence in Managing Municipal Solid Waste by Industry
• Excellence in Innovative Solutions by Start-ups for Sustainable Waste Management
• Excellence in 4R by Industry (Managing own waste): Manufacturing and service sector
• Excellence in developing the zero / minimum waste products
• Excellence in Best Practices managing plastics and packaging wastes (Including PIBOs/PROs/Recyclers/Co-processor)
• Excellence in Best Practices managing E-waste (Including PROs, Recyclers / processors)
• Excellence in Innovation Solutions / technology by Research Labs/Academic Institutes for Sustainable Waste Management