Hazardous Products

Sub-Saharan Africa’s Economic Outlook 2025: Navigating Uncertainty and Aligning Policy for Sustainable Recovery

The IMF’s April 2025 Regional Economic Outlook for Sub-Saharan Africa presents a clear warning: regional growth is slowing, debt pressures are mounting, and donor assistance is declining. Yet the report outlines critical opportunities particularly in domestic revenue mobilization, structural reform, and private sector activation that can shape a more resilient …

United Nations

The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has conducted the first-ever analysis of Albania's environment. The analysis shows that five sites in Albania are serious environmental threats. One of the most hazardous sites is in Albania's biggest port, Durres, where a large area is severely contaminated by hazardous chemicals. UNEP says …

Saving the river

The National Wilderness Institute, a Washington DC-based conservation organisation, has urged the US federal court to grant an injunction to prevent the US Army Corps of Engineers from dumping effluents into the Potomac river, which runs through the city. The Washington Aqueduct, a federally owned and operated public water supply …

South Africa

The residents of Aloes area of Port Elizabeth city, South Africa, will no longer live in the vicinity of a hazardous medical waste incinerator and one of country's largest waste sites. For years the incinerator and the waste site were polluting the area, thanks to the apartheid government. "The pollution …

Hazardous decision

the Portuguese environment ministry has approved plans for the setting up two incineration plants: one in the Arr

A complete American diet

lead, mercury, cobalt, cadmium, uranium barium, organophosphate pesticides, cotinine and phthalate metabolites

Take it back

japan and the European Union (eu) have legislated to make manufacturers responsible for recycling their products once they have reached the end of their useful life. In Japan it is the electrical appliance producers and in Europe the car manufacturers who will have to adhere to these regulations. In Japan, …

Alang s toxic yard

health and environmental conditions in the world's largest shipbreaking yard at Alang, Gujarat, are deteriorating due to unscientific and unsafe shipbreaking practises, according to a study done by Greenpeace International, an international pressure group. The organisation found very high concentrations of carcinogens and other hazardous chemicals including dioxins in 140 …

Asian rubbish

Asian countries seem to compete with each other to spew out waste. Rising populations, increasing urbanisation and better incomes mean the volume of waste generated is bound to go up in the future. How much of the municipal solid waste is organic and what other substances present depends, to a …

FOLLOW UP

A US ship laden with neurotoxic mercury on its way to India has been sent back to Port Said, Egypt, where it was stationed. This was result of strong protests by environmental organisations and the refusal of the Indian government to allow the toxic shipment to land on the country's …

Ecoproposals

sweden, the president of the European Union, has proposed stringent rules for the European chemical industry to achieve a "non-toxic environment'. European Commission's (EC) recent 10-year plan for the environment did not have any policy on chemicals, despite its pledge to phase out 32 toxic chemicals in the next 20 …

Mercurial gift

in what is termed as environmental racism, a consignment of 118 tonnes of used neuro-toxic mercury from the us is on its way to an undisclosed location in India. It is reported that a portion of the mercury has reached a purification centre in Albany, New York, from where it …

Global Environmental Negotiations 2: poles apart

The Global Environmental Negotiations (GEN) series provide information on environment-related treaties, negotiations and institutions. Poles Apart, the second in the series of books on the politics of global environmental governance (GEN). This book contains updates on the issues dealt within the first report, Green Politics . It contains new chapters …

Chemical waste

The sinking of an Italian tanker carrying 6,000 metric tonnes of toxic chemicals off France's Atlantic Coast has sent alarm bells ringing in the region. Loaded with 4,000 tonnes of styrene, a hydrocarbon used for making synthetic plastic, rubber and resins, the tanker sank in an area where radioactive and …

Punished for good

the European Commission ( ec ) has decided to file a case against Germany, Luxembourg, Ireland, Belgium, Portugal and Austria in the European Court of Justice. ec would be doing so because these countries have failed to legislate laws for avoiding and limiting the consequences of major accidents involving dangerous …

Colours of Nature

punjab durrie weavers ( pdw ), a non-governmental organisation, operating from Chandigarh and Mumbai, is collecting information on dyes available from plants and microbes. pdw intends to utilise traditional knowledge to encourage cultivation of such plants on marginal lands. Chemical dyes pollute. Alternative dyeing pigments, extractable from plants and microbes, …

More bites for India!

once bitten, twice shy. Well, that cannot be said for authorities of India's anti-malaria programme whose strategy to counter this deadly disease does not seem to have worked. Consider this: there has been an increase of 2.31 per cent in the number of malaria cases this year. Bihar, Orissa and …

Sweet smell of death

us scientists say that humans absorb high chemicals used in everyday products as fingernail polish

CFCs black market

international efforts to restore the ozone layer are being threatened by a flourishing black market of chlorofluorocarbons (cfcs), said Paul Frasier, senior principal research scientist with the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation of Australia. According to him, the smuggling is being done on a small scale, but it …

Chemical banned

CONSUMERS have decided to stop using products containing chlorpyrifos till more information about it is available. Even store managers are going to lay off these products for the time being. The chemical poses a threat to children due to its effect on the nervous system and brain development and has …

Affected people can even approach the criminal court

Should right to a clean environment be made a fundamental right? It is a fundamental right that can be enforced in the court of law. A person who is affected by environmental pollution can enforce his right to life. Should there be harsher laws to deal with pollution? There are …

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