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May 18, 2013

Kicking up a stink

Good job bringing this to light. People won't realise how huge the problem is and municipalities are woefully ill equipped to...

By : Gerard de Souza

May 18, 2013

Chaos in the iron age

Agreed; mining can never be sustainable, but then how do you get the metals to make all the things you need in the course of...

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May 18, 2013

My god v your resource

Very good piece.

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IT’s underbelly

Date: May 31, 2010 | 1

The government will soon introduce rules to regulate the informal e-waste
recycling sector, but the formal sector itself is flouting regulations. An
investigation by Down To Earth exposed how a registered firm in Roorkee
is selling electronic equipment to junk dealers rather than recycling them

Too hot to handle

Date: February 28, 2009

There are too few handling facilities and a pile up of highly toxic industrial waste. The government has come up with new storage guidelines. But it cannot ensure safety. Monitoring disposal and clean industrial processes are weak areas still

Interstate dirty dumpers

Date: January 15, 2008

Hazardous waste is routinely dumped illegally in farmland, after travelling great distances. There aren’t enough treatment facilities and it’s easy to evade lax laws to save on costs

Water budget

Date: February 28, 2006

Brinksman

Date: February 28, 2006

Le Clemenceau, the decommissioned French ship headed for Alang shipbreaking yard in Gujarat, is barely the tip of India's waste import iceberg

Just dump it

Date: November 15, 2004

India is knowingly importing huge volumes of hazardous waste

Deep in the Woods

Date: March 31, 1998

When it comes to management of forests in the US, the timber industry and environmentalists have traditionally been at loggerheads. Whoever wins, the losers are generally the people from communities living near the forests. Urvashi Narain analyses the successes, failures and problems facing a unique experiment in social forestry carried out in California. The US is learning the importance of involving communities in forest management for the first time

The X factor

Date: March 15, 1998

Business ultimately depends on profit. Sustained growth depends on wise investment. But as economies grow and productivity rises, resource use also increases, leading to wastage. This need not be so. Profit making and resource conservation can be complementary, says a book named Factor Four

A matter of the mind

Date: April 30, 1995

Mind-body medicine: in the realm of the possible but wholly inexplicable, this loose curative system has more takers every day

Toxic waste: Who cares where it's dumped?

Date: June 30, 1994

Self-reliance and export prospects have contributed to the rapid growth of the Indian chemical industry. But the distaff side of the boom is the gigantic quantities of harmful byproducts: noxious wastes, dumped irresponsibly anywhere you can find some unmonitored space

The Wasted Earth

Date: April 15, 1994

Waste has become a global problem, and is demanding curative technologies that require almost preternatural efficiency to execute. And that keep collapsing nevertheless.

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