Rajesh Bhuyan is a Mechanical Engineer from National Institute of Technology, Jaipur, India, with 35 years of experience in diverse fields and countries. He has a deep interest and experience in sustainability, as well as safety, health and environment functions in large supply chains and their interplay with the people, planet, and community.
Currently he is working as the Director of the trustea certification program, which is a sustainability certification program for the tea supply chain in India encompassing social security as well as safety, health, and environment aspects from farm to factory. Trustea certification has been certified as ISEAL Code compliant. The program certification currently covers more 75% of the tea produced in India.
Prior to this, he worked as Regional Manager, Safety, Health, and Environment(EHS), Asia Pacific, for US based FMCG MNC SC Johnson based out of their Asia Pacific headquarters in Kuala Lumpur covering Indonesia, China, Vietnam, and India. In SC Johnson, he also held the position of Head, Manufacturing Operations, overseeing five manufacturing sites across India.
He has rich experience in the food industry through plant leadership stints in beverage plants manufacturing Coca Cola as well as Pepsi and household cleaning and household pesticide and cleaners manufacturing by SC Johnson with popular brands like Mr Muscle and All Out
He holds IRCA, UK approved lead auditor certification for both ISO 9001:2015 Quality System Management and ISO 14001:2015 Environment Management System standards and is also certified for IS 140464:2019 Quantification and Reporting of Greenhouse Gases. Apart from this, he has hands-on experience in execution of TPM and Lean Manufacturing He led the India manufacturing team that launched and deployed the Lean Manufacturing process in SC Johnson across 5 factories in collaboration with McKinsey & Co.
Title: Trustea's Initiative to reduce GHG emission in tea through regenerative agricuture and energy management
From the standpoint of the primary producers, the GHG emission in teaproduction occurs in two distinct area sof operation-field and processing factory. As a sustainabiltiy standard trustea , is focussing on managing th impact of climate change in production of tea in India.This will not only help to mitigate the impact of climate change but also usherin low carbon tea production regime in India.
In the field of regenerative agriculture ,trustea is implementating a large scale countrywide Regenerative Agriculture program funded by Hindustan Unilever Ltd. The prigram will cover more thna 70000 hecatre sof area in 6 years and aims to reduce GHG emission from tea cultivation upto 25%.
In the factory processing sphere, the energy management process is anchored on the mandatory energy audits which is caried out by the trustea certifed entities as a part of complaince.Given that trustea has certified more than 70% of tea produced in India, this is expected to have a significant impact.
In order to facilitate credible and easy tracking of reduction,trustea has also created proprietory digital apps to facilitate the process.