Mercury

Rating Parameter

See Score Card Raw material sourcing phase To rate the companies on the raw material sourcing phase, grp used the following indicators: the quality of input salt, transportation of salt,

Publication Date:

14/09/2002

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

11

Issue:

20020915

pp:

0

Tags:

Pollution, Environment Impact Assessment (EIA), Industrial Dispersal, Pesticides, Health Effects, Chemical Industry, Cancer, Hydrogen, Ozone Layer, CFCs, Plastics, Waste Disposal, Mercury, Dioxin, Energy, Awards, Europe, India, Statistics

India

The best and the worst

Pondicherry-based Chemfab Alkalis Ltd (cal) has been rated as the greenest caustic-chlorine company in India. With an overall score of 46.7 per cent, it has been given the Three Leaves Award. Set

Publication Date:

14/09/2002

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

11

Issue:

20020915

pp:

0

Tags:

Pollution, Environment Impact Assessment (EIA), Industrial Dispersal, Pesticides, Health Effects, Chemical Industry, Cancer, Hydrogen, Ozone Layer, CFCs, Plastics, Waste Disposal, Mercury, Dioxin, Energy, Awards, Europe, India, Statistics

India

OBSERVATION: Mercury rising

With lax regulations and a huge mercury loss unaccounted for, a disaster is waiting to happen in India

Publication Date:

14/09/2002

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

11

Issue:

20020915

pp:

0

Tags:

Pollution, Environment Impact Assessment (EIA), Industrial Dispersal, Pesticides, Health Effects, Chemical Industry, Cancer, Hydrogen, Ozone Layer, CFCs, Plastics, Waste Disposal, Mercury, Dioxin, Energy, Awards, Europe, India, Statistics

India

OBSERVATION: Chemical roadmap

If the industry wants to survive in an environmentally conscious world, the search for chlorine alternatives must go hand in hand with product stewardship

Publication Date:

14/09/2002

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

11

Issue:

20020915

pp:

0

Tags:

Pollution, Environment Impact Assessment (EIA), Industrial Dispersal, Pesticides, Health Effects, Chemical Industry, Cancer, Hydrogen, Ozone Layer, CFCs, Plastics, Waste Disposal, Mercury, Dioxin, Energy, Awards, Europe, India, Statistics

India

Phase out at fever pitch

Trade a new thermometer for an old one. This is the message that a bill approved by the US senate seeks to give. While it bans mercury thermometers, it has provided US $20 million for the exchange

Publication Date:

30/07/2002

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Pollution, Diagnostic Methods, Mercury, United States Of America (US)

Mining

malaysia

A recent study of foodstuff from an ex-tin mining area in Bidor, Malaysia, has revealed high levels of potentially toxic

Publication Date:

30/03/2002

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Mining, Lead, Arsenic, Mercury, Malaysia

Industry

Environmental rating of Indian caustic-chlorine sector

An exhaustive life cycle analysis of players in the Indian caustic chlorine sector and its impact on environment. Deals extensively with the alarming issue of mercy pollution, its deadly effects. A comparative study with the global scenario.

Publication Date:

Jan 2002

Author(s): Sunita Narain, Chandra Bhushan

Source: Centre for Science and Environment

Tags:

Pollution, Chemical Industry, Waste Disposal, Mercury, Awards, India, Waste Recycling, Environment Management

Water Pollution

THAILAND

The sales of Thai restaurants serving shark's fin soup have declined significantly after an international environmental organisation released a report stating that the mammal's fins contained

Publication Date:

14/10/2001

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Food Contamination, Mercury, Mammals, Thailand, Toxins

Health