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Study reveals high levels of lead in house hold dust in Delhi ,Children's health at grave risk!

Submitted by ToxicsLink on Fri, 11/01/2013 - 14:56

New Delhi, 03 Jun ,2008 : A new study by Toxics Link, has revealed alarmingly high level of lead in household dust in Delhi. This has serious implications especially for children who ingest the dust while playing, and is surprising since lead in petrol has been removed since 2000. It indicates that there are other sources of lead, such as paints, which could be contributing to these levels. It is not unlikely that the situation is similar in other cities in the country.
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India's proposed waste law to officially turn it into global waste destination: Environmentalists

Submitted by ToxicsLink on Fri, 11/01/2013 - 14:48

New Delhi, 14 Nov ,2007 : Through a jugglery of words in the draft legislation on waste, the Indian Government may pave the way for officially opening floodgates for the dumping of world's hazardous waste in the name of recycling and unleash unprecedented havoc on India's environment and health of its citizens, environmentalists have warned.
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Mercury Present In Parad Shivlings, Says Environment Group; Questions Minister`s Denial In Parliament

Submitted by ToxicsLink on Fri, 11/01/2013 - 14:41

New Delhi, 02 Aug ,2006 : Responding to a question in Indian Parliament on July 28, 2006, the State Minister for Environment and Forests, Namo Narain Meena, has stated that there is no conclusive evidence for establishing the claim for presence of high content of mercury in Parad Shivling t
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NGOs South Asia Capacity Building Workshop on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs)

Submitted by ToxicsLink on Fri, 11/01/2013 - 14:35

New Delhi November 17-19, 2005 : POPs is a class of chemicals, which have been in widespread use and are extremely harmful to human health and the environment. They enter our bodies through the food chain and accumulate in the body passing on from one generation to the next through the mother and child. In the first instance twelve such chemicals have been notified for reduction and global phase out in the Stockholm Convention.
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BEA reveals 23,000 tonnes of e-waste illegally exported to developing nations

Submitted by ToxicsLink on Fri, 11/01/2013 - 14:32

New Delhi, 17 Dec, 2004 ,Illegal e-waste exports are flowing by the tonnes to developing Asian countries like India, Pakistan and China from UK Exporters mislabelling containers to flout international laws and rules.BEA sets up special enforcement project to clamp down on illegal exporters and ports Movements of hazardous wastes of all kinds is defined, controlled or prohibited under the terms of the Basel Convention - an international treaty u
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Indian Chemical Industry Seeks Right to Poison

Submitted by ToxicsLink on Fri, 11/01/2013 - 13:06

New Delhi 21 July 2003 :Unmindful of the birth defects among human beings and animals, the Indian chemical industry’s appeal to Indian government to refrain from ratifying the Stockholm Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) treaty is outrageous. This appeal by the Indian Chemical Manufacturers Association (ICMA) is ecologically catastrophic. It is akin to asking the government a permission to allow ICMA to go on poisoning our food chain.
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Ban Asbestos Network of India Condemns Indian Government's Double Speak on Asbestos

Submitted by ToxicsLink on Fri, 11/01/2013 - 12:52

New Delhi 21 Nov. 2003 : At the Rotterdam Convention meeting currently underway in Geneva (17-21 November), Canada and Russia led a revolt of asbestos producing countries against the inclusion of chrysotile asbestos (white asbestos) on the international list of chemicals subject to trade controls, despite scientific findings that this substance is harmful for human health and the environment, and in spite of the clear obligation, under the treaty, for such a listing.
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Delhiites Rally in Support of Bhopal Gas Survivors

Submitted by ToxicsLink on Fri, 11/01/2013 - 12:40

NEW DELHI, 10 JULY, 2002 : More than 250 people joined in a march from Mandi House to Parliament Street to support the indefinite protest staged by the survivors of the Bhopal gas disaster and their supporters in New Delhi since 26 June. The march was led by eminent people from New Delhi including veteran Janata Dal leader Shri Surendramohan, CITU general secretary P.K. Ganguly, senior AITUC leaders Amarjit Kaur and S.N. Thakur, Member of Parliament (RSP) Shri Abani Roy, UN rapporteur for housing rights Shri Milun Kothari and Dr. Vandana Shiva.
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Hindustan Lever Admits to Dumping of Mercury- containing Wastes

Submitted by ToxicsLink on Fri, 11/01/2013 - 12:32

Delhi, 22 March, 2001: Hindustan Lever, which had earlier denied charges leveled by citizen groups in Kodaikanal against its thermometer factory of illegal mercury waste dumping, has admitted that the mercury-containing glass wastes, now ascertained to be 5.3 tonnes, lying at the Munjikal
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Environmentalists Hail Recall of Toxic USA Mercury Shipment to India -- US Congress to Consider a Ban

Submitted by ToxicsLink on Fri, 11/01/2013 - 12:27

29 January 2001, New Delhi: An international coalition of environmental and labour organisations declared a first victory in their effort to prevent a 118 tonnes stockpile from the defunct HoltraChem chlorine manufacturing plant in Maine from being exported to India.
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Toxics Link - for a toxics-free world

Toxics Link Key Impacts

Bio – Medical Waste Management Rules

Inclusion of several suggestions by Toxics Link in the revised bio-medical waste management rules, 2016

State level Workshop on Bio-Medical waste management conducted in Rajasthan in Collaboration with Rajasthan SPCB & State Department of Health & Family Welfare

Lead in paint

Mandatory Standard for Lead in Paint

Ten years long campaign, many study reports and continuous follow-up and meetings with different stakeholders including respective ministries resulted into "Mandatory Standard for Lead in Paint" for the country.