Koppa, News Service:
The waste produced during coffee pulping is very toxic and releasing this waste directly to the environment without processing it was a cause of concern for many planters.
The Chief Medical Officer (CMO), Faridkot, on orders of the Deputy Commissioner, Faridkot, today went to the Baba Farid Centre for Special Children and forcibly cut hair of children who cannot speak. The CMO, along with a team of doctors, was at the centre to take blood and hair samples of children.
A polythene stratum measuring about ten feet in thickness is said to be embedded under a certain stretch of the Buriganga. The river remains terribly polluted from domestic and industrial wastes disgorging into it, anyway. The polythene comes as an aggravating factor, especially given the shallowness of the river.
Mumbai Several people living along the Waldhuni river bordering Kalyan and Ulhasnagar in the Thane district reportedly fell sick on Thursday morning due to invisible noxious fumes emanating from the river.
Karnataka State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB) has asked as many as 2,300 registered industries to restrain from transporting waste in view of the injunction granted by the High Court against treatment of hazardous waste at Dobbespet plant.
AHMEDABAD: For many years now, owing to high cost of toxic waste treatment, hundreds of chemical industries surrounding city have been discharging their toxic waste illegally into city drainage system in areas like Vatva, Naroda, Odhav and Narol. Ideally these units should be sending their discharge to central effluent treatment plants (CETP).
Farmers of the Sundernagar region have opposed the construction of the cement plant being set up at Chambi on the ground that it would render the fertile agriculture field into waste land, degrade the environment and leave local people landless.
