Status report filed by Chennai Metropolitan Water Supply & Sewerage Board in the matter of Tribunal on its Own Motion Suo Moto based on the news item in Dinamalar, Chennai Edition dated 19/08/2024 titled "Kalquarry in Sikkarayapuram near Kundrathur is full of water" Vs The Chief Secretary to Government, Ministry …
India was one of the first countries of the global south in the early 1990s to call for a ban on exports to developing countries. India notified the hazardous waste rules in 1989 before the Basel Convention came into force in 1992, and became a party to the Basel Convention …
Parties to the Bamako Convention adopted a set of decisions. They also adopted, by consensus, a negotiated Ministerial Declaration through which they reaffirmed their commitment to make Africa a pollution-free continent. Over 35 countries, experts, private sector, civil society, regional economic bodies participated in the three-days Conference of the Parties …
Plastics have boosted our economy because they are highly flexible, durable, and cheap. However, their massive use has created an enormous global problem with environmental, economic, social, and health repercussions. Existing international measures to deal with plastic pollution are insufficient to successfully addressing the problem. So legal provisions banning the …
Question raised in Rajya Sabha on Disposal of e-waste as per Basel Convention, 13/08/2015. Central Pollution Control Board in the year 2005 had estimated a quantity of 8 lakh tonne of e-waste generation in the country in the year 2012. e-waste (Management and Handling) Rules, 2011 have been notified for …
India is the fifth largest generator of e-waste in the world revealed this new report released by the United Nations University. India (1.7 Mt) along with Japan (2.2 Mt) and China (6.0 Mt) is amongst the top three Asian nations with the highest e-waste generation in absolute quantities. E-waste, or …
Industry representatives including Nespresso, Audi, BMW, Jaguar Land Rover and Tetra Pak have put forward criteria for a global standard for sustainable aluminium production. The standard is part of the IUCN-led Aluminium Stewardship Initiative (ASI), whose aim is to foster responsible environmental, social and governance performance throughout the entire aluminium …
Pakistan has imported over 22,149 metric tonnes of potentially hazardous plastic scrap, as the country is a big dumping ground for plastic scrap. The import made during January to October 2013 and from 2011 till date is over 92,000 tonnes of plastic scrap most of which is from Middle Eastern …
The following draft notification which the Central Government proposes to issue, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 6, 8 and 25 of the Environment (Protection) Act, 1986 (29 of 1986), for making certain amendments in the Hazardous Wastes (Management, Handling and Transboundary Movement) Rules, 2008, issued vide number …
Despite being a signatory to Ban Amendment of Basel Convention, the United Kingdom has dumped more than 600,000 kilograms of potentially hazardous plastic scrap in Pakistan during June 2013. Approximately 2,100 metric tons of potentially hazardous plastic scrap was released from different dry ports of Lahore, Islamabad and Multan during …
New Delhi, 6 JULY: The Supreme Court today directed the Centre to ban imports of all substances identified and declared to be hazardous or toxic wastes under the Basel Convention and its protocols. A Bench of Justices Altamas Kabir and J Chelameshwar also asked the Central Government to bring the …
This new report by UNEP provides a review of policies and initiatives promoting Sustainable Consumption and Production. It reviews 56 case studies, highlights the best practices and offers recommendations to scale up and replicate them worldwide. The Global Outlook on Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP) Policies, developed by the United …
The present technical guidelines provide guidance for transboundary movements of used electrical and electronic equipment (further used equipment), in particular on the distinction between waste and non-waste pursuant to decisions IX/16 of the Conference of the Parties to the Basel Convention on the control of Transboundary Movement of Hazardous Wastes …
The parties to the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal have considered the difficulties involved in identifying and managing used [and waste pneumatic] tyres, given their potential harmful effects on human health and the environment. Accordingly, technical guidelines on the identification and …
The present guidelines provide guidance for the environmentally sound management (ESM) of wastes consisting of elemental mercury and wastes containing or contaminated with mercury, pursuant to decisions VIII/33, IX/15 and X/[ ] of the Conference of the Parties to the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movement of Hazardous …
Current technical guidelines for environmentally sound co-processing of hazardous waste as alternative fuels and raw materials for use in cement kilns conform to decisions VIII/17 and IX/17 of the Conference of the Parties to the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movement of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal and …
This paper is a preliminary attempt to illustrate and quantify the harm being caused to human health or the environment by the transboundary movements of hazardous waste.
Animal activists last summer set fire to the alpine holiday home of Daniel Vasella, then chief executive of pharmaceutical giant Novartis of Basel, Switzerland, in one of relatively few violent attacks on scientists working with animals in German-speaking countries.
These rules may be called the Hazardous Wastes (Management, Handling and Transboundary Movements) Third Amendment Rules, 2010. They shall come into force on the date of their publication in the Official Gazette.
This document explains step-by-step how to develop a joint adaptation strategy, with a special focus on the transboundary context. Based on the concept of integrated water resources management, it provides advice to decision makers and water managers on how to assess impacts of climate change on water quantity and quality, …
This report examines the directives set forth by the October 2003 Supreme Court order, and it reviews the current status of implementation of the directives with a specific focus on information dissemination and the creation of a Toxics Release Inventory for India. It also identifies the possible bottlenecks and reasons …
