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Waste Disposal
The grey continent
Issue Date: Aug 31, 1997
If there is one single factor which binds most Asian cities together, it is pollution.
Paying nature's bill
Issue Date: Feb 15, 1993
IN THE last 100 years of industrialisationindustrial firms have sought to increase their efficiency and profitability through increases in labour productivity. One fallout of this was the replacement of human labour with machines thatin turnhas resulted in heavy natural costs as industries became increasingly energy- and material-intensive. All this has happened partially because materials and energy have been cheap.
Choking slowly to death
Issue Date: Jan 31, 1993
WHEN ABOUT 200,000 litres of furnace oil spilled into the Damodar river from the Bokaro Steel Plant on April 2, 1990, it took the authorities four days to wake up to the disaster. By then, the oil had travelled about 150 km downstream to Durgapur and for at least a week after the incident, the five million people in the area drank contaminated water. Even then, it was'nt the pollution control authorities who spotted the disaster.
Cry of a river
Issue Date: Jan 15, 2012
Indra Pal Singh fondly recalls drinking sweet water of the river Ami as a child. Elders of the village where Pal Singh grew up say the river gets it name from aam (mango) or amrit (nectar). Today, Pal Singh, pradhan of Adilapar village in Uttar Pradesh’s Gorakhpur district, says the 136 km river has become a nuisance. A drain that carries untreated industrial effluent from the Gorakhpur Industrial Development Area (GIDA) has reduced it to a filthy water body. Residents of more than 100 habitations downstream of the drain often complain of colds, mystery fevers, nausea and high blood pressure. They find it hard to breathe at night as the stench from the drain rises with the increase in the volume of the wastewater. The residents say the effluent level rises by half a metre at sunset.
Ragpickers oppose waste to energy plants
Issue Date: Dec 27, 2011
With the fear of losing their means of living looming over them, waste pickers from across the country have opposed Delhi government’s plan to install three waste to energy plants in the city.
“How can the proposed energy generation of 40 MW justify the loss of 350,000 jobs,” asks Dharmendra Yadav, general secretary of All India Kachra Sharamail Mahasang (AIKSM) which organised a state-level meet of waste pickers on December 22.
Infosys to switch to renewable energy, go carbon neutral
Issue Date: Dec 22, 2011
When did Infosys decide to tread the path of clean energy and efficient use of natural resources?
Interviewee:
Rohan Parikh
Waste manager dumps it in river
Issue Date: Dec 31, 2011
AFTER years of dilly-dallying, the pollution control board finally issued closure notice to Gujarat Enviro Protection Infrastructure Limited (GEPIL) on November 30. The Surat-based waste management company was caught disposing of hazardous waste into the Mindhola River flowing by the city.
Hazardous delay
Issue Date: Dec 31, 2011
IT TOOK the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) five years to reply to the Supreme Court. It has submitted an affidavit giving details about the status of compliance with 29 directives on hazardous waste, which the apex court had passed in 2003. But experts say the document is not comprehensive and is misleading.
Letters - December 31, 2011
Issue Date: Dec 31, 2011
Cautious Warning
It appears that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has tightened its procedures in the hope of preventing errors in terms of the language used in its report (‘Future shock’, November 16-30, 2011).
Liability sans facility
Issue Date: Nov 30, 2011
TO TACKLE the waste generated by the booming health industry, the Union environment ministry plans to amend the Biomedical Waste (Management and Handling) Rules of 1998. The ministry had posted the draft rules on its website in August for public comment and is evaluating the recommendations.
