Solid Waste

 Trash kings

The mafia s control of garbage business

Publication Date: 
30/05/2006
Kaushik Das Gupta
Down to Earth
Tags:
Solid Waste, Garbage, Waste Disposal, Waste Conversion
India

 In short

effluents spur boycott: Farmers from Kuppam village in Tamil Nadu's Karur district have declared a boycott of the assembly elections, scheduled for May 8-10, 2006. They allege that effluents from

Publication Date: 
14/05/2006
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Pollution, Industrial Dispersal, Ganga, Textile Industry, Garbage, Waste Disposal, Politics, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal
Solid Waste

 Maharashtra acts

Polybags out, system suspect

Publication Date: 
30/03/2006
Nidhi Jamwal
Down to Earth
Tags:
Solid Waste, Garbage, Plastics, Waste Disposal, Legislation, Maharashtra, Waste Recycling
India

 Bone damage

Effluents threaten Nilgiri

Publication Date: 
27/02/2006
C Balaji
Down to Earth
Tags:
Pollution, Environment Impact Assessment (EIA), Nilgiri, Waste Disposal, Drug Industry, Tamil Nadu
Industry

 Disposal dues

The Ramapough mountain tribe and other residents of Ringwood, New Jersey (nj), us, have filed a lawsuit against the Ford Motor Company and 12 other companies for property damage and personal

Publication Date: 
27/02/2006
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Pollution, Health Effects, Public Interest Litigation (PIL), Waste Disposal, Tribals, Auto Industry, Ford Motor, United States Of America (US)
Industry

 Desperately seeking waste

By the time you read this, the decision would have been taken: to allow or not to allow the French warship Le Clemenceau into India, so that it can be dismantled with unknown quantities of toxic

Publication Date: 
27/02/2006
Sunita Narain
Down to Earth
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Shipping, Garbage, Waste Disposal, Waste Incineration, Hazardous Products, Industry, Toxic Wastes
India

 Cane fumes

Mills of Gorakhpur grind slowly, but they grind too fine

Publication Date: 
30/01/2006
C Balaji
Down to Earth
Tags:
Sugarcane, Health Effects, Sugar Industry, Waste Disposal, Waste Treatment, Energy, India, Uttar Pradesh, Gorakhpur (D)
Sanitation

  Ecosan is not a second rate approach

The Millennium Development Goals (MDG) related to sanitation rely on flushing systems. Uno Winblad, senior adviser, Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI), Sweden, tells S V Suresh Babu that the ecosan approach can do the job much better

Publication Date: 
30/01/2006
Suresh Babu S V
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Pollution, Slums, Sanitation, Lowcost Toilets, Waste Disposal
Industry

 Wasted chance

The cement sector has another big potential

Publication Date: 
30/12/2005
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Limestone, Energy Efficiency, Cement, Solid Waste, Waste Disposal, Cement Industry, Lafarge India, Sanghi Industries, Fly Ash
Environment

  E waste from the West

A recent study conducted by Basel Action Network (ban), a us -based lobby group, found that around 500 containers packed with old computers, televisions and mobile phones were arriving every month

Publication Date: 
29/11/2005
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Waste Disposal, Nigeria, Computers, Electronics, Toxins

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