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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MAHARASHTRA: Waiting for a cow to die
In Maharashtra, the dumping of toxic waste is no less brazen. It is a common practice in Bombay to dispose of industrial sludge along with municipal garbage. Associated Industrial Consultants (AIC),
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Environmental anguish in Love Canal
The US has become a model for ensuring the proper disposal of hazardous wastes
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PUNJAB: Ignorance is bliss
The situation is, if anything, worse in the north Indian states like Punjab, where many industrialists acknowledge they are not even aware of the possibility of their products being toxic or of solid
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Waste not, want not
Salient features of the Union government's guidelines for handling and managing hazardous waste
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Toxic nightmare
Common effluent treatment plants were meant to help small industries, but they simply don't seem to work
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Toxic waste: Who cares where it's dumped?
Self reliance and export prospects have contributed to the rapid growth of the Indian chemical industry. But the distaff side of the boom is the gigantic quantities of harmful byproducts: noxious wastes, dumped irresponsibly anywhere you can find some unm
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Keep your waste
A ban has been imposed on the export of hazardous waste despite strong Northern resistance
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Green power
IT HAS taken decades of singleminded toil for the world's leading green organisations to move centripetally from what was considered the lunatic fringe to a position of such popular power and
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Tiffs with scrap
Beware of waste that can be recycled
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Agitation resurrected
Citizens of Ratnagiri in Maharashtra have decided to revive their agitation against the Rs 700-crore copper smelting factory of Sterlite Industries India Ltd in the district. Last August, local