Environment

 Landfill sites location

the Union government is planning to prohibit location of landfill sites within a 10-km radius of airports and airbases in the direction of the

Publication Date: 
29/09/1999
Down to Earth
Tags:
Air Transport, Waste Disposal, Landfill, Birds
Health

 Death of a computer

There is an urgent need to develop a technology to recycle old computers

Publication Date: 
14/08/1999
Down to Earth
Tags:
Landfill, Technology, Waste Recycling, Toxic Wastes, Computers
Forests

 High level garbage

Washington state plans to sue the US energy department for failing to clean up a radioactive waste dump

Publication Date: 
30/07/1998
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Tags:
Groundwater Pollution, Landfill, Radiation, United States Of America (US)
India

 Waste is being dumped in Russia

Galina Sdasyuk is a researcher at the Institute of Geography, Russian Academy of Science, Moscow, and is formulating a sustainable model of development for her country. She spoke to Vineet Katariya

Publication Date: 
14/04/1998
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Ecology, Landfill, Economic Development, Russia, Toxic Wastes
India

 The way of all waste

Environmentalists and developing

Publication Date: 
30/03/1998
Rajat Banerji
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Basel Convention, Landfill, Hazardous Products, OECD, Developing Countries, European Union (EU)
Climate Change

 Against waste

Protecting poor countries from becoming dumping grounds for the North s wastes

Publication Date: 
30/03/1998
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Basel Convention, Landfill, Hazardous Products, OECD, Developing Countries, European Union (EU)
India

 Need for introspection

India s stand at the conference

Publication Date: 
30/03/1998
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Basel Convention, Landfill, Hazardous Products, OECD, Developing Countries, European Union (EU)
India

 In the thick of battle

Environmentalists beef up defences

Publication Date: 
30/03/1998
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Basel Convention, Landfill, Hazardous Products, OECD, Developing Countries, European Union (EU)
India

 At bay or at sea?

How plugging a loophole may create a flaw in a convention

Publication Date: 
30/03/1998
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Basel Convention, Landfill, Hazardous Products, OECD, Developing Countries, European Union (EU)
India

 Polluted vicinity

close on the heels of the nuclear waste deal between Taiwan and North Korea (nk) comes another disturbing bit of news for nk's southern neighbour. It was recently revealed that since 1994, at least

Publication Date: 
14/04/1997
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Tags:
Plastics, Landfill, South Korea

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