Waste Disposal

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

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

14

Issue:

20060228

pp:

0

Tags:

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

Author(s): Sunita Narain

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

14

Issue:

20060228

pp:

19

Tags:

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

Author(s): C Balaji

Source: 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

Author(s): Suresh Babu S V

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

14

Issue:

20060131

pp:

0

Tags:

Pollution, Slums, Sanitation, Lowcost Toilets, Waste Disposal

Industry

Wasted chance

The cement sector has another big potential

Publication Date:

30/12/2005

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

14

Issue:

20051231

pp:

0

Tags:

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

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

14

Issue:

20051130

pp:

0

Tags:

Waste Disposal, Nigeria, Computers, Electronics, Toxins

Climate Change

In Court

Agent Orange in Canada: A class action lawsuit has been filed in Ottawa, Canada, by people who claim they were exposed to Agent Orange and other chemicals that were tested in the 1960s at a Canadian

Publication Date:

14/08/2005

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

14

Issue:

20050815

pp:

0

Tags:

Health Effects, Canada, Waste Disposal, Legislation, High Court, Chennai (D), Toxins

India