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India

 Mumbai produces highest e waste

Mumbai is India's leading generator of e-waste, says the latest study by Toxics Link, an NGO dealing with toxic issues in India. The study Mumbai

Publication Date: 
30/03/2007
Down to Earth
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Pollution, Health Effects, Trade, Imports, Electronics Industry, NGO, India, Delhi, Mumbai, Waste Recycling, Toxic Wastes
India

 Costs and benefits of India's waste disposal options

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Publication Date: 
14/03/2007
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Groundwater Pollution, Nagarpalikas, Urban Sanitation, Solid Waste, Garbage, Waste Disposal, Waste Treatment, Subsidies, High Court, India, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Statistics, Waste Recycling
Solid Waste

 Maharashtra acts

Polybags out, system suspect

Publication Date: 
30/03/2006
Nidhi Jamwal
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Solid Waste, Garbage, Plastics, Waste Disposal, Legislation, Maharashtra, Waste Recycling
Energy

 It s money, stupid

Waste can fuel savings in cement plants

Publication Date: 
14/03/2006
Radhika Krishnan
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Solid Waste, Plastics, Waste Conversion, Energy, Cement Industry, Waste Recycling
Animal Care

 Lightly treads the tourist

In Nepal's Annapurna Conservation Area (aca), the term

Publication Date: 
14/10/2005
Ghazala Shahabuddin
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Ecology, Pollution, Ecotourism, Agriculture, Animal Care, Women, Wildlife, Protected Area Conservation, Nepal, Waste Recycling
Solid Waste

 Plastic oil

Ideal disposal for waste plastic bottles

Publication Date: 
14/07/2005
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Automobiles, Solid Waste, Plastics, Oil, Environmental Science, Waste Recycling
Solid Waste

 Yet, life s in tatters

Ragpickers are a city s vital service providers: they clean it up

Publication Date: 
14/03/2005
B Bhattacharya
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Health Effects, Solid Waste, Rag Pickers, NGO, Waste Recycling
Solid Waste

 Developing countries are dumpyards for e waste

A recent study in the US shows that by 2004, over 315 million computers will become obsolete. By 2005, for every single computer an American buys, one will be discarded

Publication Date: 
14/11/2003
Nidhi Jamwal
Down to Earth
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Lead, Solid Waste, Hazardous Products, Exports, Electronics Industry, Technology, United States Of America (US), Developing Countries, Waste Recycling, Toxic Wastes, Computers, Electronics
Energy

  Is TN wasting its energy?

tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa's decision to resuscitate the 14.85-megawatt Perungudi waste-to-energy (wte) plant has been greeted with dismay by environmentalists. On January 31, 2003

Publication Date: 
14/03/2003
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Solid Waste, Waste Incineration, Energy, India, Tamil Nadu, Waste Recycling
India

 CETPs: in fashion

Pollution from small-scale industries has grown by leaps and bounds. So, building common effluent treatment plants (cetps) has become a fashion. The Union

Publication Date: 
14/01/2003
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Pollution, Pollution Control, Industrial Dispersal, Leather Industry, Waste Treatment, Small Scale Industry, Technology, Supreme Court, NGO, Greenpeace, India, Andhra Pradesh, Delhi, Gujarat, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Waste Recycling, Common Effluent Treatment Plant (CETP)

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