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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Ivory Coast removes illegally dumped toxic waste
Ivory Coast has begun mopping up the toxic waste that was illegally dumped by a Dutch-based commodities company, Trafigura Beheer BV, in early September. The waste, which left eight dead and at least
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Ivory Coast cabinet resings over toxic waste
The cabinet of Ivory Coast has resigned following the dumping of toxic sludge in the city of Abidjan. A Panamanian-registered vessel, Probo Koala, had dumped over 500 tonnes of liquid toxic sludge
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Of electronic revolution and sustainability
While promoting computer literacy and Internet access in developing countries, multinational technology companies are inadvertently contributing to a public health crisis. Several initiatives backed
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Pakistan's toxic waste case takes new turn
the struggle against the callous industrialists who dumped toxic chemical waste on two plots in the Sindh Industrial Trading Estate (site) in Karachi, resulting in the death of a child and serious
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Tailings dam opposed in Chile
Residents of northern Chile are appealing that a tailings dam project, which is now almost halfway complete, be halted. Once completed, it would be the third largest tailings dam in the world and
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Rules for dumping toxic waste in Pakistan
Rules for disposing toxins
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EU regulation bans six toxic chemicals in household gadgets
EU frames stringent rules against toxic chemicals
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Mumbai suburbs gets a landfill site for hazardous waste
Kanjumarg will aggravate Mumbai s waste crisis
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In Court
liberian timber: Dutch timber merchant Guus van Kouwenhoven has been sentenced to eight years in prison for breaking a UN arms embargo on Liberia. The International Court Of Justice in Hague found
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Another ammunition cache in Ghaziabad
There will be many more if we don t clean up