Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Futala Lake’s charm fades amid neglect and poor maintenance appearing in ‘The Times of India’ dated 25.05.2025". The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Futala Lake’s charm fades amid neglect …
at least 120 countries have agreed to become signatories to a un treaty banning or restricting the use of 12 toxic chemicals known as persistent organic pollutants ( pop s). The treaty, known as the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants, was signed on May 23, 2001, and will become …
the former employees of the Hindustan Lever Limited's ( hll ) thermometer factory in Kodaikanal, Tamil Nadu, are protesting against the company's "unrepentant and insensitive attitude' regarding hazardous working conditions and dangerous mercury waste management practises. The worker's association alleges that instead of conducting health checkups for its workers, the …
Emissions from incinerators on the Thai resort islands of Phuket and Koh Samui are affecting human health, alleges Greenpeace, an international pressure group. The emission levels of toxic chemicals by these incinerators is about 15-40 times higher than the legal limits in Japan and Europe, the group said. The health …
Environmental activists in Kodaikanal, Tamil Nadu, are protesting against Hindustan Lever Limited's (HLL) dumping of toxic mercury waste in the town and in the reserve of Pambar Shola. The waste, estimated to be around 15 tonnes, is generated from the thermometer factory of HLL situated in Kodaikanal. Initially HLL maintained …
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 …
delhi is the only city in the country, which does not have a separate landfill site to safely dispose off its hazardous waste. Neither does the city government have documented evidences of the hazardous waste being generated. To discuss these problems, a seminar on hazardous waste management was recently organised …
A wrecked foreign vessel, suspected to be carrying toxic waste, has been found near the Banjul port of Gambia. The toxic waste was meant to be dumped in Gambia's waters, the government officials said. According to allegations, the vessel was
activists of Greenpeace, the international pressure group, have raised concerns about toxic sludge being dumped in the Mediterranean sea near Selaata, off the Lebanese coast. The sludge, dumped by the Lebanese Chemical Company (lcc), has destroyed most of the area's sea life. Greenpeace has urged the Lebanese environment ministry to …
the Union ministry of environment and forests (mef) has recently notified a draft Batteries (Management and Handling) Rules 2000, to control hazards associated with backyard smelting and unauthorised repro-cessing of lead acid batteries. The provisions of the draft rules stipulate that battery manufacturers, importers and assemblers can collect one old …
even with social activism on the increase, there are cases of powerful industry managing to circumvent rules and bypass procedures to ensure their units get governmental approval to function, regardless of their polluting and degrading natures. An example is Meta Strips Limited (msl), a copper recycling plant, which has got …
The Supreme Court ordered the ministry of labour and the Union ministry of environment and forests (MEF) to pay a fine of Rs 10,000 each for not being able to furnish information on hazardous waste units in the country. The ministries could recover the fine from concerned officers responsible for …
Toxic waste from the Thor Chemicals' mercury processing plant is contaminating the groundwater in KwaZulu-Natal, according to the environment justice networking forum (EJNF) of South Africa. The plant treats and stores toxic waste imported from developed countries in Europe and elsewhere. The state department of environmental affairs and tourism took …
the Thames Water company was fined us $403,400 by a London court for allowing millions of litres of raw sewage and industrial chemicals to flow into the Thames before diverting it into family homes. Ten families in Erith, Kent, were evacuated as their houses were flooded with sludge in November …
in an event hailed as a "major breakthrough" by Klaus Topfer, executive director of the United Nations Environment Programme ( unep ), a liability protocol which offers monetary compensation to victims hurt in the process of handling toxic wastes came into being in December 1999. While it is the first …
a study conducted by uk -based ici (Imperial Chemical Industries) on the long-term effects of dumping chemicals in quarries near Runcorn, Cheshire, uk has turned up some startling evidence. It has confirmed that some nearby homes have tested positive for hexachlorobutadience ( hcbd ). hcbd is considered responsible for kidney …
Sihanoukville, in the southern part of the country, has become the dumping ground for trash from neighbouring countries. The flow of refuse - from electronic goods to car parts - continues with the civic authorities unable to check the problem. In November 1998, a plastics manufacturer based in Gaoxiong, Taiwan, …
europe is in the middle of a major environmental disaster - the worst since the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster in Ukraine. On January 30, about 100,000 cubic metres of slurry, consisting major concentrations of cyanide and other heavy metals, from a containment dam spilled into the Szamos river in Romania. …
