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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...
Madhya Pradesh High Court gives green light to disposal of Union Carbide waste after successful trialsThe Madhya Pradesh High Court has greenlit the disposal of hazardous waste from the Union Carbide factory in Bhopal at a Pithampur plant. F...
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...
MP HC allows 'trial run' of Union Carbide waste disposal at Pithampur facilityThe Madhya Pradesh High Court has sanctioned a trial run for incinerating 40-year-old chemical waste from the defunct Union Carbide factory...
Drowning in garbage: How this innovation can make burning trash safe and economicalAs population and economic activity rise, the quantum of waste will also increase. Managing this is important in a world where the need to ...
Plastic, grapple the whole pipelineAccording to the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), global plastic waste will almost triple by 2060, and only a ...
CSIR-NCL, RIL join hands to recycle COVID-19 PPE wasteThere has been a substantial increase in demand for single-use plastic items, since the Covid-19 pandemic. More than 200 tonne of COVID-19 ...
346 tonnes of hazardous waste still lying at Union Carbide premises: GovernmentCentre said nearly 350 tonnes of hazardous waste is "safely secured" inside the factory premises of Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL).
Bengaluru has still a long way to go to deal with sanitary waste disposalImproper disposal of sanitary waste can lead to various environmental and health risks. "It is a huge problem across the country, said a me...
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.
Government decides to ban import of tyres, edible fats for recyclingThe changes to the Act were made as vegetable oils and animal fats are said to produce similar effects on environment as by petroleum oils.
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 may be shipped out
The Group of Ministers on the Bhopal Gas tragedy have abandoned the plan to burn down 350 tonnes of toxic industrial waste at a privately r...
- Bhopal case: Jairam 'sorry' govt smuggled Union Carbide waste
The govt smuggled out 40 tonnes of toxic waste from the Union Carbide factory to an incinerator 230 km away at a site in Pithampur.
- Gujarat moves SC over Bhopal waste disposal order
Cleaning up the Bhopal gas tragedy site has led to a new inter-state dispute between Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat with the latter moving the ...
- UCC waste to be dumped in Ankleshwar
Gujarat may witness fresh round of protests from environment groups and social activists as a fallout of the Madhya Pradesh High Court’s fr...
- BEIL says its facility can dispose Bhopal waste
With environmentalist protesting disposal of toxic waste of the Bophal Gas Tragedy in Bharuch town of south Gujarat, the Bharuch Enviro Inf...