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EU plans to impose emissions costs on waste incineration plantsEuropean Union plans will require waste incineration plants to pay for carbon dioxide emissions. This move aims to encourage reuse and redu...- 19 tonnes of soil containing Union Carbide waste incinerated four decades after Bhopal gas tragedyAuthorities incinerated around 19 tonnes of contaminated soil from the Bhopal Union Carbide factory. The incineration took place at a facil...
- Madhya Pradesh completes safe disposal of 337 tonnes of Bhopal gas tragedy wasteThe Union Carbide factory waste in Bhopal is now ashes. All 337 tonnes of waste have been incinerated at a Pithampur disposal plant. This m...
- Four decades later, Bhopal burns again and this time, it’s Tarapur breathing the poisonForty years after Bhopal suffered the worst industrial tragedy in modern times, the inhabitants of Tarapur village are exposed to the fumes...
- Bhopal gas tragedy: Incineration of Union Carbide factory waste begins on trial basisThe trial incineration of 10 tonnes of waste from Bhopal's Union Carbide plant started in Pithampur, Madhya Pradesh, and will take 72 hours...
- Turn greenwashing machines off: Timarpur Okhla waste-to-energy plant faces scrutiny over toxic emissionsA New York Times investigation reveals that the Timarpur Okhla Waste Management Plant in Delhi is emitting dangerous levels of pollutants, ...
- Oil-rich UAE to burn waste to make powerThe UAE, one of the world's top oil exporters, is building the Gulf region's first waste-to-power plants to ease its chronic trash problem ...
- For effective waste disposal, segregation is the keyFor the waste that cannot be treated or recycled, engineered landfills are used even in developed countries.
- After 32 years, government now plans to dispose 332 tonnes of toxic UCC waste via tenderThe move comes over a year after the pilot incineration of 10 tonnes of Union Carbide waste was conducted in Dhar district of MP.
- Okhla waste-to-energy plant safe: CPCB tells NGTJustifying setting up of the waste-to-energy plant in Okhla, the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) on Friday told the National Green T...
- Can incinerators help manage India's growing waste management problem?Complaints are not uncommon around WTE plants, but they have come up anyway because of the pressing need to dispose of waste.
- Manish Sisodia visits controversial Okhla, Ghazipur waste-to-energy plantsA CPCB inspection had revealed levels of dioxins and carcinogenic chemical compounds in the Okhla plant was several times the safe standard.
- Delhi's waste-to-energy plants ‘toxic, costly, inefficient’Waste-to-energy incineration plants may not help Delhi deal with its massive trash problem.
- Bhopal gas tragedy: No accurate data on deaths 30 years on, alleges NGOThough unofficial estimates claimed that the death toll had exceeded the 25,000 mark, official figure stands at 5,295 for whom the govt had...
- Bhopal gas tragedy: Toxic waste disposal still awaitedHC asked for the waste to be incinerated at Pithampur, and in a prelude 25-30 metric tonnes should be disposed on an experimental basis.
- 99 per cent of Sweden's waste is now reusedAround 99 per cent of Sweden's garbage is now recycled and the country is so efficient at managing waste they are importing it from other E...
- Delhi's Okhla plant gets notice for air pollution in areaResidents of Sukhdev Vihar and other areas near the plant have been protesting against waste-to-energy technology since 2010.
- Waste to energy plant in Delhi creating 'hazardous air quality conditions'Emissions from the Timarpur-Okhla waste to energy plant are creating "hazardous air quality conditions necessitating immediate abatement of...
- Waste-to-energy plant: Residents do a HazareZain-ul-Abideen, a social worker who went on the hunger strike on Friday morning, said he would continue his fast if the project was not st...
- Bhopal case: Jairam 'sorry' govt smuggled Union Carbide wasteThe govt smuggled out 40 tonnes of toxic waste from the Union Carbide factory to an incinerator 230 km away at a site in Pithampur.
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