the Supreme Court Monitoring Committee (scmc) on hazardous waste has recommended that a Danish ship reportedly carrying hazardous waste and beached at the Alang ship-breaking yard in Gujarat "be mercilessly driven out of India'. The ship's very arrival at Alang violated the Supreme Court's (sc's ) ship breaking directives, it held.

Indian authorities let the controversial ship dock at Alang despite the Denmark government's warning about the hazardous waste it was carrying. Danish authorities had ordered the ship to remain in Denmark till its decontamination was complete. But the ship escaped. As such, the Denmark government requested the Indian government to send it back to Denmark. However, an inspection team of the Indian government gave a clean chit to the ship, saying it had no hazardous substances on board (see Down To Earth,