Solid Waste

Recovering resources, creating opportunities: integrating the informal sector into solid waste management

This report summarizes the results of the GIZ sector project "Recycling Partnerships". It describes the activities of the informal waste sector in different countries and presents approaches and successful experiences to integrate informal workers in solid waste management systems.
 

Publication Date: 
01/03/2011
German Technical Cooperation (GTZ)
Tags:
Solid Waste, Waste Management, Informal Sector, India, Global, Waste Recycling, Child Labour, Occupational Health, Occupational Safety
Pesticides And Toxins

Endosulfan sufferers don't count

A survey done by Kerala government in October shows 2,210 people from 11 gram panchayats in Kasaragod are affected by endosulfan. But the muted figure did not go down well with activists fighting for endosulfan victims as the survey was done in three-four days and covered only a part of the district. Down To Earth reports on the endosulfan sufferers in Kerala still not recognised.

Publication Date: 
15/01/2011
Savvy Soumya Misra
Down to Earth
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Agriculture, Compensation, Endosulfan, Endosulfan Case, Health Effects, High Court, Kasaragod (D), Kerala, Occupational Health, Pesticide Use, Pesticides And Toxins
Environment

Mainstreaming environmental issues in sustainable enterprises: an exploration of issues, experiences and options

This paper illustrates the environmental elements of a strategy towards the creation of sustainable enterprises by highlighting impacts on employment of different environmental instruments and policies.

Publication Date: 
01/01/2011
International Labour Organization
Tags:
Environment, Unemployment, Industry, Small Scale Industry, Low Carbon Economy, Sustainable Development, Private Sector, Cooperatives, Subsidies, Technology Transfer, Occupational Health, Occupational Safety, EU-ETS
Mining

Illegal mining: No attempt to curb ecology damage

MoEF Report Shows Apathy Over Environmental Safeguards
Rachna Singh | TNN

Jaipur: While it is evident that rampant unregulated and illegal mining is going on in Rajasthan, what is also alarming is that the state has done little to reduce the damage caused to ecology and people working in the mines.
A recently written letter by the CM Ashok Ghelot to the Union minister Jairam Ramesh states

Publication Date: 
09/12/2010
Times Of India (Jaipur)
Tags:
Mining, Illegal Trade, Ecology, Health Effects, Occupational Health, Air Pollution, Water Pollution
Health

Silicosis victims: Union to submit memorandum

JODHPUR: With the compensation announced by the human rights commission for the silicosis victims of Gujarat and MP last week, the victims of Jodhpur, who have long been awaiting compensation from the state government, have now decided to press their demand.

Publication Date: 
22/11/2010
Times Of India (Jaipur)
Tags:
Silicosis, Mining, Workers, Health Effects, Rajasthan, Compensation, Occupational Health, Jodhpur (D)
Mining

The remnants of asbestos mining in Rajasthan: an occupational health update

Mine Labour Protection Campaign (MLPC) has been striving to protect the rights of the mineworkers for years now and asbestosis could not have slipped from their agenda. To reach to the root of problem, MPLC had to deal with an array of issues.

Publication Date: 
01/11/2010
Alexander N Pan
Mine Labour Protection Campaign (MLPC)
Tags:
Mining, Asbestos, Rajasthan, Minerals, Occupational Health, Health Effects, Diseases, Asbestosis, Workers
Health

Lung function decline in cotton textile workers

Long-term occupational exposure to cotton dust containing endotoxin is associated with chronic respiratory symptoms and a more rapid decline in forced expiratory volume in 1 sec (FEV1), but the mechanisms of endotoxin-related effects remain unclear. Shi et al.

Publication Date: 
31/10/2010
Jing Shi, Amar J. Mehta, Jing-qing Hang & et al
Environmental Health Perspectives
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Textile Industry, Occupational Health, Health Effects, Cotton, Respiratory Diseases, Health
Health

Genotoxicity in filling station attendants exposed to petroleum hydrocarbons

Biomonitoring of exposure in workplaces has gained importance in evaluation of human health hazards. Since occupational exposure to petroleum hydrocarbons may have deleterious effects, genotoxicity risk among 200 fuel filling station attendants (FFSAs) and 200 matched controls was investigated.

Publication Date: 
18/10/2010
Perumalla Venkata Rekhadevi, Mohammed Fazlur Rahman, Mohammed Mahboob & et al
The Annals of Occupational Hygiene
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944
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Health Effects, Occupational Health, Petrol, Benzene, Hyderabad (D), All India Soil and Land Use Survey Organisation, Health
Health

Noise in office can be deadly for your heart

London: Constant noise at workplace can significantly increase your risk of serious heart problems and also make you weigh and smoke more, says a new study published in the British Medical Journal.

Researchers have found that working in a consistently noisy environment more than doubles the risk of serious heart problems

Publication Date: 
07/10/2010
Times Of India (New Delhi)
Tags:
Heart Diseases, Health Care, Noise Pollution, Occupational Health
Air Pollution

Genotoxicity in filling station attendants exposed to petroleum hydrocarbons

Biomonitoring of exposure in workplaces has gained importance in evaluation of human health hazards. Since occupational exposure to petroleum hydrocarbons may have deleterious effects, genotoxicity risk among 200 fuel filling station attendants (FFSAs) and 200 matched controls was investigated.

Publication Date: 
01/10/2010
Perumalla Venkata Rekhadevi, Mohammed Fazlur Rahman, Mohammed Mahboob & et al
Annals of Occupational Hygiene
54
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944
Tags:
Occupational Health, Petrol, Health Effects, Benzene, Gas Chromatography and Mass Spectrometer (GCMS), Air Pollution, Hyderabad (T), Andhra Pradesh, Toxicity Studies

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