POISON WATER

CHEMICALS ALERT

Despite protests, a tainted company tries to set up a fungicide unit

Treating hospital waste

No more extensions!

No bric-a-bracs

Bricks can be made with 30 per cent sewage sludge

Scrap from Russia is cheaper

So Pakistani shipbreakers accept hazardous warships

New medias triumph

All at sea

Why agri plastics are bigger threats than they appear to be

Just 1 kg of thin mulching sheets is enough to cover and contaminate as much as 700 square feet of agricultural land

Here is a 5-step guide for making your daily life plastic-free

Plastic is so ubiquotous in our lives that one should start on a small scale in the beginning

Plastic is now in humanity’s blood

Besides research, policies and technologies, it is now a global environmental concern that demands an individual or personal effort in …

How plastic pollution affects camels in the Thar

Improved waste management and alternative systems to package and deliver goods in the region could help in managing our terrestrial solid waste …

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (May 24, 2019)

Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal

Charges of poisoning

Using automobile batteries both Indian and foreign, Clandestine lead-smelting units near the Delhi border have played havoc with the health of …

Uproar over a burning issue

With rising awareness regarding the hazards of incinerating waste, a lot of proposals for incinerators have been ruled out in the West and the …

Death on its agenda

An expert team report exposes highly dangerous pollution inflicted by a chemical plant on the environment of Sayala in Gujarat

Occupational hazard

At a Gujarat chemicals factory, workers have holes in their noses. Apathy of the owner is to blame

Dumpyard

Hazardous materials from Taiwan were dumped in a village in Cambodia about a month ago. UnsuspeoAng villagers now complain of a host of diseases

International dump yard

Ship breaking thrives in South Asia because of weak laws

Change is in the process

Cobalt-60 is in Delhi

Authorities unsure how to check entry of radioactive material in scrap

Single-use plastic ban unfairly targets street vendors — but they have a solution for plastic pollution

Shift to a reusable system through public policy, stricter regulations across the entire plastics supply chain are key to enable just transition &…

Why dumping plastic waste in landfills is a much bigger issue

Potential routes for plastic losses from landfills involve environmental mechanisms like wind, flooding, leaching and runoffs

The protection racket

Fine for a firm