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Industry

 Dumping dilemma

It has not been smooth sailing for the controversial us $58 billion project to store all the nuclear waste across the us in Nevada. Initially, the plan was strongly opposed by

Publication Date: 
30/05/2002
Down to Earth
Tags:
Waste Disposal, Nuclear Wastes, United States Of America (US), Waste Recycling
India

 Ecomilestone

Recycling of discarded vehicles soon to be mandatory in Europe

Publication Date: 
30/03/2002
Chandrachur Ghosh
Down to Earth
Tags:
Automobiles, Cars, Waste Treatment, Hazardous Products, Legislation, Europe, France, Germany, United Kingdom (UK), India, Waste Recycling, European Union (EU), Vehicles
India

 IT paves the way

there is an infotech solution in sight

Publication Date: 
14/03/2002
Down to Earth
Tags:
Waste Disposal, India, Waste Recycling
India

 Misguided shot

The Basel convention guidelines to manage plastic waste miss the point: reducing plastics is the real solution

Publication Date: 
27/02/2002
Nidhi Jamwal
Down to Earth
Tags:
Basel Convention, Plastics, Legislation, NGO, India, Statistics, Waste Recycling, European Union (EU)
India

 Drowning In Human Excreta

Sanitation for urban India means building flush toilets and linking them to sewer systems. But the price of chasing this dream is leading to an environmental catastrophe. MANOJ NADKARNI analyses our flush and forget mindset

Publication Date: 
27/02/2002
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Water Pollution, River Pollution, Water Demand, Urban Water Supply, Sanitation, Scavengers, Lowcost Toilets, Waste Disposal, Waste Treatment, Technology, Research, India, Delhi, Statistics, Waste Recycling
India

 New Age Approach

We need to go back to the drawing board to reinvent a green toilet. If necessary, to go back to our past and find technological innovations that are sustainable and equitable. So that every Indian can have access to sanitation and still have clean water t

Publication Date: 
27/02/2002
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Water Pollution, River Pollution, Water Demand, Urban Water Supply, Sanitation, Scavengers, Lowcost Toilets, Waste Disposal, Waste Treatment, Technology, Research, India, Delhi, Statistics, Waste Recycling
India

 Ecologically mindless

The flush toilet system and the sewage system, which goes with modern day personal hygiene and cleanliness, are part of the environmental problem and not the solution. Consider the huge amount of clean water that is used to carry a small quantity of human

Publication Date: 
27/02/2002
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Water Pollution, River Pollution, Water Demand, Urban Water Supply, Sanitation, Scavengers, Lowcost Toilets, Waste Disposal, Waste Treatment, Technology, Research, India, Delhi, Statistics, Waste Recycling
Biodiversity

 Committees vs committees

Can rubber stamps serve public interests?

Publication Date: 
14/02/2002
Down to Earth
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Health Effects, Emissions Trading, Plastics, Legislation, Public Participation, Governance, Government Of India (GOI), Council Of Scientific And Industrial Research (CSIR), Waste Recycling
Mining

 Toxic gardens

the lawn waste recycling industry in the us is alarmed after traces of Clopyralid,

Publication Date: 
30/01/2002
Down to Earth
Tags:
Pesticide Residues, United States Of America (US), California, New Zealand, Waste Recycling, Washington
India

 Out of site

it's a catch-22 situation. Although the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (tnpcb) wants local bodies to compost their waste, there is a problem of giving them the right place. A recent casualty is

Publication Date: 
30/01/2002
Down to Earth
Tags:
Pollution Control, Reservoirs, Conflicts, Governance, India, Tamil Nadu, Waste Recycling

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