Lethal landscape

India has 134 contaminated hazardous sites and another 192 'probable' contaminated hazardous sites, which includes seven sites around the …

The can-conned

Sri Lanka is not anybody’s dumping ground

In a major win, the country's Court of Appeals recently ordered the repatriation of hazardous waste imported from the UK

Asia, be ware!

Hazardous waste

The number of hazardous industries and the waste they generate have gone up between 2019–20 and 2020–21. There is also a glaring data …

Pretty hazardous

Caught clueless

Where is the government's plan?

Base oversight

Centre proposes amendments to Shipbreaking Code 2013 for safe recycling

Toxic ships entering Indian waters expose vulnerabilities in country’s maritime and environmental security

Polluter firms blacklisted

Chemical weapons on the pyre

The US is facing strong opposition to its plans to incinerate chemical weapons

Paying for the North's "eco-dumping"

A pleasant wash

A new detergent can help reduce waste emissions during dry-cleaning

One step forward

Trapping pollutants

A new material could soon be used to remove pollutants from toxic wastes

An industrialised business

Erin Brockovich II

Tsunami-swept worries

Air losing self-cleaning ability

Recent studies indicate increasing pollution may be hampering the atmosphere's inherent cleansing abilty

ILO readies convention on safety standards for industry

Toxic waste: Who cares where it's dumped?

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 …

Paradigm shift in transborder plastic waste trade

Agreement reached at 14th Conference of Parties to the Basel Convention to make global trade in plastic scrap more transparent and better regulated

UN conference calls for global action to save people from toxic chemicals

Delegates agreed though that the key 2020 goal for sound chemical management could not be met by that year

A different waste model

Extending the pollution horizon