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Pollution board gets tough with scrap dealers
Tightening its noose around the scrap dealers operating clandestinely in the Baddi-Barotiwala-Nalagarh (BBN) industrial area from the neighbouring the Haryana State Pollution Control Board has stepped up its drive to check their anti-environmental activities.
- Date:
- 30/12/2008
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- Tribune (New Delhi)
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Fresh rules for managing electronic waste
Pune With nearly 5,000 tonnes of electronic waste generated in Pune every year and about 23,000 tonnes in Mumbai, the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) is preparing fresh guidelines for e-waste management for the two cities that generate maximum e-waste in the state.
Environment secretary Valsa Nair, who is also the chairperson of the MPCB, has already issued a notice to this effect.
- Date:
- 12/12/2008
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- Indian Express (Mumbai)
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E-waste poses health hazards
BY OUR CORRESPONDENT
HYDERABAD
Nov. 30: Thousands of tonnes of electronic waste generated from the city is tucked away in landfills or burnt disregarding health hazards it poses.
The landfills turn harmful with the leaching of mercury, cadmium and lead toxins and contaminates land and water sources by percolation.
- Date:
- 01/12/2008
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- Deccan Chronicle (Hyderabad)
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Pesticide company bus set on fire
NASHIK: A bus carrying 14 workers of a company at Rasegaon was burnt on Saturday evening while it was on its way to the factory. No death has been reported, but some workers were injured. A case has been registered at Dindori police station.
- Date:
- 25/11/2008
- Source:
- Daily News Analysis (Mumbai)
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60 healthcare facilities fail to incinerate hazardous waste
Around 60 healthcare facilities are not incinerating their hazardous waste, while around 132 healthcare centres are using the incineration facilities for hazardous waste available at the Shalimar Hospital Waste Management Company (SHWMC), officials at the Environment Protection Agency (EPA) and the SHWMC said on Thursday.
- Date:
- 21/11/2008
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- Daily Times (Pakistan)
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National seminar on geo-hazards held at DU
A national seminar on “Frontier areas of research in geology of northeast India” was organised by department of Applied Geology, Dibrugarh University, on November 11 and 12. The seminar was sponsored by the University Grants Commission, New Delhi and co-sponsored by Oil India Limited, Duliajan, as well as Dibrugarh University.
- Date:
- 21/11/2008
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- Assam Tribune (Guwahati)
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City wakes up to e-waste woes, firms up plant plan
Mumbai, November 19 With the commercial capital leading the country’s electronic waste generation, the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) has now formally constituted a core committee to chalk out a road map to deal with the e-waste in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR).
- Date:
- 20/11/2008
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- Indian Express (Mumbai)
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AERB moots mandatory checks for radiation
Ishita Ayan Dutt / Kolkata
Checks for radiation may become mandatory for metal scrap if the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB) has its way.
- Date:
- 18/11/2008
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- Business Standard (New Delhi)
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UCIL leak bothers Aussie expert
A member of Medical Association for Prevention of War, Australia, Tilman Alfred Ruff today visited Dungridih village in East Singhbhum that witnessed spilling of radioactive waste due to a leakage in the pipeline that carries it to the tailing pond of Uranium Corporation of India Limited (UCIL).
- Date:
- 15/11/2008
- Source:
- Telegraph (Ranchi)
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Angling competition to net uranium!
Never before was the stakes involved behind a village fishing competition so high anywhere. It was a whopping Rs 1,000 crore in this case!
- Date:
- 15/11/2008
- Source:
- Assam Tribune (Guwahati)
