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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Waste management strategy for toxic-free environment soon
State Minister for Environment and Forest Mustafizur Rahman said the government is going to develop a strategy soon for sustainable waste management to keep the environment toxic-free.
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Now, effluent treatment is dirt cheap
AHMEDABAD: For many years now, owing to high cost of toxic waste treatment, hundreds of chemical industries surrounding city have been discharging their toxic waste illegally into city drainage system in areas like Vatva, Naroda, Odhav and Narol. Ideally these units should be sending their discharge to central effluent treatment plants (CETP).
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Dispose of toxins, Swiss way
Jamshedpur, March 8: Call it a Swiss solution to a clean, green state. Cement major ACC Limited has entered into a technical collaboration with Swiss giant Holcim to offer industrial units in the state a common hazardous waste management facility at its Jhinkpani plant in West Singhbhum district.
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Scraping bottom
Once considered too expensive, as well as too damaging to the land, exploitation of Alberta's oil sands is now a gamble worth billions.
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Too hot to handle
<i>India has tightened guidelines for storage of toxic industrial waste. But is it enough?</i>
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Whats happening inside disposal units?
Enforcement and monitoring are the key to safety Having tsfds and guidelines in place does not mean the waste has been taken care of. As the beil accident showed, cpcb
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Managing mercury waste
Compact fluorescent lamps have emerged as a viable option to sharply reduce the energy demand for lighting. They are now manufactured by the millions, and the production base is bound to expand as official agencies and State governments scale up plans to replace existing lamps with CFLs. Besides saving power, these lamps also hold the potential to earn carbon credits.
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Plastic, other waste destroyed in Colva scrap yard fire
A major fire engulfed a scrap yard located in a residential locality at Colva last night, destroying plastic and other waste
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Extinction threat to vultures
Satna: The population of one of nature's strongest scavenger --'vultures' -- is dwindling in Gidhhkoot mountain of Madhya Pradesh's Satna district in an alarming rate. The reason of this steep fall of the rare specie is contaminated meat.
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January 31, 2009
Deadline for disposing UCIL waste THE Madhya Pradesh High Court on December 16 issued fresh directions to dispose the toxic waste lying at the Union Carbide plant in Bhopal. The waste is to be incinerated at the waste treatment site in Ankleshwar industrial area of Gujarat. The court directed the Gujarat government to dispose the hazardous waste by January 31, 2009. The waste has been