What's happening inside disposal units?
Andhra hospitals flout bio-medical rules
119 hospitals issued show cause notice by state pollution control board for violations
Liability sans facility
Draft rules ask health centres to ensure their waste is treated
Mercury treaty still sketchy
While experts welcome the Minamata Convention for phasing out mercury, they believe it might not be enough
Mind the mercury
Why no one is checking how mercury-laden CFLs are handled and discarded
Hong Kong Convention in way of ban on toxic exports
Could prove the death knell for Basel Convention
Letters
Promises broken, justice delayed
Bhopal gas tragedy survivors continue to suffer as court cases are delayed and government promises prove hollow
Ratlam’s toxic legacy
Hazardous waste kept in shut factories continues to contaminate groundwater
Bhopal waste to be disposed of in the sea?
Taking cue from disposal of chemical weapons in 2009, Supreme Court-appointed monitoring committee suggests incinerating the waste on a floating …
Nations discuss ban on toxic exports
Ban Amendment seeks to curb export of hazardous waste by rich countries to the poor, but has not been brought into force since 1994
Bhopal to Germany
Airlifting Union Carbide waste requires amending Indian law, violates Basel Convention
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