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No one's controlling mercury
Issue Date: Jan 31, 2009
Industry reluctant, regulators lax
To industry's tune
Issue Date: Nov 30, 2008
"With a small half life, endosulfan does not pose any serious health risk in tropical countries like ours" --Indian delegation at Rotterdam Convention
Asbestos, endosulfan escape blacklist
Issue Date: Nov 30, 2008
India blocked export restrictions on them at Rotterdam Convention
india yet again played spoilsport by preventing chrysotile asbestos and endosulfan from being included in Annex III
of un's Rotterdam Convention that brands them hazardous. Had the two been included in Annex III, it would have
South Asia
Issue Date: Oct 15, 2008
PASHMINA is Kashmiri: India granted, on September 12, the Geographical Indicat-ion (GI) status to Pashmina yarn, produced in th Kashmir valley by Tahfuz (a body of all Kashmiri handicraft artisans). Islamabad filed an objection claiming that the fine wool is also produced in Pakistan. A consultative committee of the Geographical Indication Registry of India rejected Pakistan's objections. A GI status ensures that a name can only be used by produce from a particular geographical region, not anywhere else. Example: Darjeeling tea, Champagne.
News - In short
Issue Date: Apr 15, 2008
spoiling act A group of activists has alleged that a few countries led by Canada are sabotagingun's Rotterdam Convention. The ten-year old convention aims to control global trade in hazardous chemicals.
Environmental, gender, labour and health groups from India and abroad have, in a joint statement, said the countries, including India and many other developing countries, are blocking implementation of the convention that 120 countries have ratified.
Authorities clueless Carcinogen NP in a large number of products in India.
@soulmoksha Issue Date: Jan 15, 2008
Ana M Soto, professor at the Tufts Medical School at Massachusetts in the us, made an important discovery while
working with breast cancer cells in 1989. She found that some of the tissues were proliferating without stimulation when stored in plastic tubes. An
MOEF defination of waste, material etc. skewed
Issue Date: Dec 31, 2007
the terms 'waste' and 'material' are synonymous in the draft hazardous material rules of the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (moef). The rules have been criticized for violating norms of the Basel Convention--an international treaty on cleaner production, minimization of hazardous waste and control on its movement--to which India is a signatory.
Plasma process to treat US chemical waste
Issue Date: Nov 15, 2007
dow Corning Corporation, the us- based silicon-manufacturing major, has announced it
will use the plasma-based gasification process to recycle hazardous chemical waste. This will be the first commercial use of the Plasma Enhanced
Melter technology in the us. Dow Corning will use the technology at its facility in Midland, Michigan.
The technology has been patented by the us- based Integrated Environmental Technology Inc (
<i>Blue Lady</i> contained radioactive waste
Issue Date: Aug 31, 2007
new evidence has emerged showing that the Norwegian ship Blue Lady sent to India for dismantling may have
radioactive material on board. Tom Haugen, former project manager of the ship (formerly known as SS Norway), recently submitted a letter in
this regard to the Committee of Technical Experts (cte) set up by the Supreme Court.
In short
Issue Date: Aug 15, 2007
eu dumping rules: On June 12, European Union (EU) laid down rules to check illegal dumping of hazardous
materials in developing countries. An update of 1993 EU regulations, the new rules require EU governments to carry out inspections and make spot
checks of ships in their territory. It also gives governments the right to check containers for their contents and lays out rules for shipments within
the EU. For example, the new rule entails that detailed information should be presented with respect to hazardous waste.
