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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Greenpeace activists protest against toxic waste
Greenpeace activists today staged a protest against toxic waste in front of the Dell office here, carrying placards with messages that read ''Micahel Dell: Drop the Toxics''.
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Aquatic plants act as natural water purifier, says study
At the time when there is so much discussion about conserving the lakes of the city and removing pollution, a recent study has shown that plants like normal Water Hyacinth and Eichhornia Crassipes function like natural water purifiers and remove heavy metals, nitrates and phosphorous from the lakes.
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Clean-up standards for toxic mercury leak relaxed
Move provokes outcry from residents of Kodaikanal
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Shutters down for polluting units, says HC
Hundreds of polluting industrial units in Delhi are set to close shop as the Delhi High Court on Wednesday sought strict compliance of the Supreme Court ruling on closure of such units in the M C Mehta case. The move would start with polluting units in Nangloi village, and the High Court gave the Delhi government four weeks for the clean-up act.
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Haryana blinks as Hero Honda unit pollutes Gurgaon village
Hexavalent chromium released from an ancillary unit of Hero Honda is contaminating the groundwater of Sehraul and nearby villages in Gurgaon, with the Haryana Pollution Control Board doing little to contain spread of the toxic material.
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Villagers decide to act as admin fails to stop flow of pollutants
After the administration and Punjab Pollution Control Board (PPCB) drastically failed to meet its dead line of 2008 to preserve the natural water source
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What will CCP tell HC on Bainguinim waste site?
The Corporation of the City of Panjim will have to reply to the High Court of Bombay at Goa tomorrow on the progress it has made on the waste-treatment plant at Bainguinim, even as CCP Mayor at the behest of the Education Minister Babush Monserrate said the corporation will now request the government for an alternate site.
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Toxic waste being dumped at discarded Bainguinim site
The Corporation of the City of Panjim (CCP) may have virtually abandoned the proposed garbage treatment plant at Bainguinim, but truckloads of highly toxic industrial waste and domestic garbage are clandestinely being dumped by miscreants at the site.
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25 yrs later, Carbide waste to be burnt at MP incinerator
S.S. NEGI After persistent hammering by the Supreme Court over disposal of the deadly methyl isocyanate and toxin's waste material from Union Carbide's defunct plant at Bhopal where over 3,000 people were killed and lakhs of others crippled for life, the Centre finally has created hightech incinerator facility in Pithampur in Madhya Pradesh itself to burn it after 25 years.
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Beware! Liquor in PET bottles toxic
A recent research that is sure to spoil the party of those consuming country-made liquor in Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and Chandigarh has shown that some toxic components in PET bottles migrate to the beverages stored in them, a fact that could even lead to cancer.