Dangerous business

Disposal facilities are not the final solution, but are good business as long as subsidized

What's happening inside disposal units?

Enforcement and monitoring are the key to safety Having tsfds and guidelines in place does not mean the waste has been taken care of. As the beil accident showed, cpcb's guidelines that existed before the new ones, like mandatory labelling of drums, were not enforced.

Change is in the process

One way of managing waste do not produce it

January 31, 2009

Deadline for disposing UCIL waste THE Madhya Pradesh High Court on December 16 issued fresh directions to dispose the toxic waste lying at the Union Carbide plant in Bhopal. The waste is to be incinerated at the waste treatment site in Ankleshwar industrial area of Gujarat. The court directed the Gujarat government to dispose the hazardous waste by January 31, 2009.

Playing with waste

a landfill and compost plant proposed to come up near the Yamuna at Kuberpur village in Agra came in for criticism at a recent public hearing at Agra Collectorate. Environmentalists and social activists are concerned that incineration of waste at the plant will release toxic pollutants, dioxins and furans, in the environment. The Uttar Pradesh Jal Nigam's Rs 30.84-crore solid waste management project will segregate waste for refuse derived fuel (

Better disposal mechanism for plastics

incineration of plastic that is non biodegradable leads to emission of cancer-causing dioxins. Researchers from Kolkata say they have developed a better disposal mechanism that cuts down emission of harmful chemicals.

Toxic waste kept for safe disposal in Bharuch catches fire

 

Karachi's garbage plans

ignoring the growing worldwide concern over waste-to-energy plants and incineration, the district administration in Karachi has tied up with a Malaysian firm to build a similar plant. The project will be the first of its kind in Karachi and will use plasma technology to generate 50 mw power.

Activists detained near Bali deported

three activists were detained in Bandung, Indonesia, for campaigning against a waste-to-energy plant. They were arrested the same day the conference of parties to the un's climate change conference started in Bali.

Garbage to energy plans

five union ministries are jointly planning a waste-to-energy plant in India. The plant will come up in a large city and will be modelled after the pilot plant in Hyderabad which is said to be generating 6.5 mega watt of power. Though officials claim the plant will help convert a huge amount of municipal solid waste (msw) into