The illegal trade in chemicals
<p>Chemicals provide important benefits to society and play a vital role in the global economy, but they also carry risks for the environment and human health, with greater risks to vulnerable social groups.
Toxic Wastes
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Kallayi river degraded by toxic waste
KOZHIKODE: The legendary Kallayi River that symbolised the civilization of Kozhikode is dying a slow death. Infestation of weeds, discharge of untreated effluent into the river, dumping of hospital waste, unprotected embankment and untreated waste from septic tanks are hastening its degeneration.
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Chevron fined $9.5 bn for green damage
In an epic environmental case, an Ecuadorean judge ruled on Monday that Chevron Corp was responsible for oil drilling contamination in a wide swath of Ecuador
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3 Hazaribagh factories sealed
The Department of Environment yesterday sealed three factories at the city's Hazaribagh and arrested its owners for using toxic tannery-waste in poultry and fish feeds. A DoE team, in a surprise raid at MK Enterprise, Zeko Fine Leather and Amir Multi Food, found workers filling sacks with dried up tannery waste, said Monir Chowdhury, director (monitoring and enforcement) of the department. T
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Delhi is biggest market for trash
New Delhi: Once the biggest recycler of electronic waste in the country, Delhi is now the biggest scrap market for it.
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Awareness campaign on plastic menace, water pollution held
An awareness campaign on plastic menace, environmental pollution, solid waste management and future developmental aspects of Hunsur Town was organised by Save Our Earth Club an NGO of Hunsur in association with Vasanthkumar Mysoremath, Mysore Grahakara Parishat Member, at Arya Vysya Kalyana Mandira in Hunsur recently. In his Key-note address, Mysoremath requested the citizens of Hunsur to start
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Toxins in city's drinking water could hit 7 lakh
MUMBAI: The BMC may be risking the health of around seven lakh people living in the Sion-Sewri belt following the reopening of the Raoli water reservoir, whose two tanks have been coated with a polyurethane to protect their insides from rusting.
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Two firms selected for hospitals mercury waste collection
Following criticism from green body, the Delhi Government has identified two private firms for collection of hazardous mercury waste from the city
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Dow-Reliance venture was approved despite concerns
Mahim Pratap Singh Commerce Ministry refused to reconsider the approval despite Chemicals Ministry plea
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Watchdog slams leather hub
The Bantala tanneries are posing a risk to the environment because of the failure of the state and the Centre to complete the construction of the common effluent treatment plant in the 12 years since work on the leather hub started, the CAG has said in a report.
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Tiger Spring was carrying hazardous material
Tiger Spring, the container vessel which ran aground on the eastern bank of the Hooghly river following collision with another container vessel, Green Valley, on Tuesday, was carrying several boxes of hazardous materials. According to informed sources, the vessel was carrying 60 tonnes of IMO Class 9 and another 4.6 tonnes of IMO Class 6.1 hazardous cargo in four containers. When contacted,