Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "2 killed in blast at illegal cracker unit in Thanjavur appearing in The Hindu dated 19.05.2025". The application is registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled 2 killed in blast at illegal cracker unit …
The Karnataka High Court has ordered the Pollution Control Board (PCB) of the state to pass effective orders within three months on the complaint made against Indus Textile Limited (ITL). The complainant had alleged that the industrial plant is causing air, water and environmental pollution. It has adversely affected the …
l Solur, Tamil Nadu, May 1983. Investigations reveal that tanneries in nearby Ambur town have been releasing acidic waste into the river Palar, making the water toxic and unfit for drinking. l Bhopal, December 2, 1984. Methyl isocyanate leaks out of containers in the Union Carbide factory. Many die, thousands …
Relief and compensation for life and property from a disaster is provided in Australia under the State Disaster Act, 1980. The State Disaster Relief Fund (SDRF) is responsible for collecting money for material and personal harm and for administering the fund. The SDRF committee can take decisions in awarding claims …
Year Corporation Country Cause of damage Number of Claimants Compensation (US $) Compensation/ Claimant(US $) 1984 Union Carbide India Methyl isocyanate gas 600,000 470 million 783 1985 Johns Manville USA Asbestos exposure 60,000 2.5 billion 41,667 1986 A H Robins USA Dalkon Shield (intra-uterine device) 94 520 million 5,531,915 1994 …
A division bench of the Andhra Pradesh High Court has ordered the closure of six polluting industries in Kattedan Industrial area. The industries are Vijayanand Textiles, Ramachandra Refinery, Anil Refinery, Bhavani Industries, Supreme Pigments and Jayadurga textiles. The closure was ordered on the basis of a report submitted by the …
A NEW fibre developed by the British textile firm Courtaulds - Lyocell - is causing considerable interest in the markets in Europe, and now in India. Courtaulds claims that Lyocell blends the favourable qualities of cotton with those of synthetic fibre, and can be mass produced in an envirpnment friendly …
Recently, owing to contamination from the textile dye waste generated by factories that are situated along the Kelani river, the water supply to the city of Colombo got seriously disrupted. According to reports, there are several such factories along the river's banks which have been discharging toxic chemicals in absence …
The state of Virginia is going to sue the US government demanding US $1.5 million as its share ofthe money spent so far and for future expenses required for cleaning up the pollution caused by a rayon fibre factory. The state has alleged that the federal government was aware of …
JAPANESE followers of fashion can now buy the latest thing in sartorial elegance: fabrics printed with the same technology used by millions of computer printers worldwide. Canon, the electronics company and Kanebo, the clothing company, have developed the bubble jet textile printing system, which the companies say can be faster …
there is good news for people who have athlete's foot, jock itch and those who have laundry baskets full of smelly socks. An acrylic fibre that can kill irritating, odour-producing microorganisms has been produced by British textile company Courtaulds. The fibres are impregnated with antifungal and antibacterial compounds that slowly …
The damage that textile production causes to the environment has been a bone of contention for environmentalists. Pollutants from textile production (zinc, sulphides or copper salts) are non bio-degradable. But now, a French fashion designer, Olivier Lapidus, is all set to launch a collection of clothes made from eco-friendly fibres …
Surjit S Mann, director of the Delhi-based Kala-Tex India Ltd has invented an environment-friendly textile dye by a process based on electrolyte technology. This electrolytic composition dye labelled
These are not the best of times for azo dyes. Germany had banned the import, trade and use of certain azo dyes in textiles in April; France and the Netherlands have followed suit now. Azo dyes, possessing a chemical group derived from diazonium salts, are commonly used for colouring textiles …
next winter, a new material promises to keep you warm when standing in freezing rain but cool when running around. Gateway Technologies in Colorado, us , has developed Outlast, a lightweight fabric that can adapt to changes in both body and environmental temperatures. The fabric keeps the wearer warm when …
POLYESTER is back again. And this time it looks much better. After an initial roaring success in the '70s, when this petrochemical based fibre made a stunning impact (and later became embarrassing to wear) on the dressing style, polyester became a cliche, a way to say an archaic dressing sense' …
Weeds are more often a nuisance., and so was the case with Banmara or Eupatorium adenophorum which was the bane of farmers in the eastern Himalaya and Uttar Pradesh. Shunned even by animals, the weed had no uses except for being used as an antiseptic and anti-bleeding agent at times …
How does the idea of silk-coats leather sound? Scientists at tic National Institute of Sericultural and Entomological Science Japan are working to realise the ideT with the help of Indem,*3 Petrochemical Co Ltd Silk, now only made into yarn fibip has been crushed to powder forzT for coating various mate …
AFTER cashmere, alpaca and mohair, the latest fad in the global textile market may well be recycled plastic clothes. Going by the recent developments in the chemical and textile industries, it may not be long before a sweater or a jacket made from recycled plastic bottles becomes an essential fashion …
Indian textiles using toxic dyes will be banned in Germany from July 1. Indian exporters, already struggling to adjust to 'environment friendly' production norms of the West, will have to juggle themselves afresh to tackle the German ban on azodyestuff. These have been found to release harmful amines which cause …
