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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11 illegal textile processing units demolished in Erode
They were found to be discharging effluents into waterways The Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board demolished 11 unauthorised textile processing units, here, on Monday. The units, located in Surampatti dam, Kasipalayam, Kollampalayam and Choolai areas, were found pumping huge amount of untreated, toxic effluents into the waterways, causing irreversible damage to the environment, officials from the board said.
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River pollution slur on TTPS
The Brahmani river here is facing pollution threat. Release of ash water and other wastes from the 460-mw Talcher Thermal Power Station (TTPS) here into the Brahmani has ended up severely polluting
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Gas tragedy: MP still stuck with Bhopal waste
Bhopal, December 2 : The 28th anniversary of the world's worst industrial tragedy falls on December 3, but the toxic chemical waste at the Union Carbide plant premises here has not been disposed of and
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MP stuck with toxic waste even after 28 yrs of Bhopal Gas tragedy
The 28th anniversary of the world’s worst industrial tragedy falls on December 3, but the toxic chemical waste at the Union Carbide plant premises here has not been disposed off and is unlikely to be done
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Siberia's pesticide dumps may prove a bigger hazard than nuclear waste
Across the former Soviet Union harmful agricultural chemicals were either buried or improperly stored. Now the process of clean-up has begun At Tegul'det (population 3,000), a village in the south-east
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South Koreans to ponder where to store nuclear waste
South Korea is to hold public consultations on where to store waste nuclear fuel as storage capacity at its reactors is reaching full capacity, the government said on Tuesday. The plan to set up an
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Distillery non polluting: Mittal
The chairman and managing director of Bathinda Chemicals Limited (BCL) Rajinder Mittal claimed that his distillery located near the Machhana village was not creating pollution, as had been claimed by the
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British government files charges against nuclear waste plant owners
British regulators filed charges against the owners of the Sellafield nuclear waste site on Thursday on allegations of illegal dumping of radioactive waste, adding to the plant's history of controversy
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Diwali crackers get louder, silent on pollution
Boxes Don’t Bear Pollution Labels, No Quality Checks For Crackers: Experts New Delhi: Two days to Diwali and Sadar Bazar’s market for fireworks is teeming with people. Bright colourful boxes of crackers
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All crackers exceed sound limit: Govt study
Jaipur: A Central government study conducted earlier this year concluded that not a single firecracker available in the market was within the prescribed noise level limits set by the Supreme Court. A test of 846 firecrackers made by 144 manufacturers in Sivakasi, Tamil Nadu – the hub of firecracker production in the country – showed that the minimum noise level these firecrackers generated was 120 decibels (dB) against the Supreme Court-mandated 105dB for a string of crackers. The noise limit for a single cracker is 125dB. The maximum noise these tested firecrackers generated was 146.8dB.