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Failure to handle hospital waste

Submitted by ToxicsLink on Mon, 07/01/2013 - 15:31

Source:Deccan Herald ,Date:10/04/2013

Poor segregation, disregard for public safety and lack of watchdog prove worrisome
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Time for a total ban on plastic

Submitted by ToxicsLink on Mon, 07/01/2013 - 15:21

Source:Deccan Herald ,Date:5/05/2013

Say no to plastic bags’. Despite such sloganeering and some measures taken by the government to ban plastic, it continues to clog drains, pollute rivers and kill animals. Choked drains, during the monsoon, have often led to flooding of roads in Delhi.
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Send e-waste to the recycle bin

Submitted by ToxicsLink on Thu, 06/13/2013 - 16:41

Source:Hindustan Times,Date:20/05/2013

A towering heap of grimy CPUs and keyboards are shoved roughly into bulging gunny bags. LCD monitors are lined up face down on a slightly cleaner desk — they will be separated from their cases and sold off at Rs500 a piece. Two men try to melt metals from a printed circuit board, unmindful of the noxious fumes that will one day ruin their nervous systems.
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Home ministry orders complex in 'Ridge' area

Submitted by ToxicsLink on Thu, 06/13/2013 - 15:52

Source: Times of India,Date:11/05/2013
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Green loss lens on forest department

Submitted by ToxicsLink on Thu, 06/13/2013 - 15:41

Source: Hindustan Times,Date:15/05/2013

Delhi’s forest department came under the scanner of experts and residents on Wednesday during a daylong discussion session titled ‘Delhi’s dying trees.’
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South Delhi unaware of e-waste hazards: Survey

Submitted by ToxicsLink on Thu, 06/13/2013 - 15:32

Source: The Pioneer, Date:08/03/2013

The environmental hazards of e-waste — electronic items that have been disposed of — have become a serious concern for South Delhi areas which seem to generate more of such trash than other parts of the Capital, according to a survey.
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Home ministry orders complex in 'Ridge' area

Submitted by ToxicsLink on Thu, 06/13/2013 - 15:28

Source: The Times of India, Date: 11/03/2013
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South Delhi unaware of e-waste hazards: Survey

Submitted by ToxicsLink on Thu, 06/13/2013 - 15:18

Source: The Pioneer,Date:08/03/2013

The environmental hazards of e-waste — electronic items that have been disposed of — have become a serious concern for South Delhi areas which seem to generate more of such trash than other parts of the Capital, according to a survey.
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Beyond trees and tigers

Submitted by ToxicsLink on Thu, 06/13/2013 - 15:13

Source: The Hindu,Date: 03/03/2013

As India’s sustainability issues grow more complex with modernisation, one of the main challenges facing environmental educators is how to impart these difficult concepts to children and how to make sure they care about them beyond the test score.
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E-waste, a growing concern for India!

Submitted by ToxicsLink on Thu, 06/13/2013 - 15:07

Source:ZEE News, Date:28/02/2013

Even as India is trying to devise environmental friendly ways to dispose garbage, the specter of Electronical-waste (E-waste) destroying the balance of the nation’s ecological health has already started looming over. More worrying is the absence of a regulatory framework to dispose or recycle e-waste further compounded by a lack of general awareness.
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