18/06/2008

• Report on Open Ended Working Group Meeting on Mercury - Bangkok
By Dr. Abhay Kumar
Published in Toxics Link; 18/06/2008
The first open ended working group meeting held in Bangkok on November 12,2007 reached a consensus on ways to face challenges posed by Mercury and its threats to human health and environment. The meeting also discussed voluntary measures and new or existing international legal binding treaty as possible options to tackle the mercury related problems. The article takes a close watch on the debates at the meeting.

17/01/2008

• Washing the dirty linen: hospital waste management
By Anu Agrawal
Published in Terragreen; 17/01/2008
We have all visited hospitals and nursing homes and been very careful about new syringes and making sure that old ones are trashed. But here’s a question: Whatever happens to that trash? What do they do with the waste generated in hospitals?

02/01/2008

• 2007: A year of massacre for Delhi trees
By Parvinder Singh
Published in Toxics Link; 02/01/2008
A conversation between those talking for the trees and those cutting them never really took-off, as the planners never believed that the trees ever had a chance. Call it the death of reason or something deeper, while thousands of trees were cut this year, and many more will continue to be felled.

28/12/2007

• Downside of the Digital Revolution
By Satish Sinha
Published in Toxics Link; 28/12/2007
India’s IT revolution is the major contributor to the fast growing economy of the country. But the other side of the digital revolution is grim which reminds the producers, consumers and policy makers of a mounting problem; the new generation waste or E- waste. The article takes stock of the E—waste generation in the country and the future threats from E- waste.

05/12/2007

• Minutes of Meeting to discuss the Draft Hazardous Waste Rules 2007
By Toxics Link
Published in Toxics Link; 05/12/2007
A move that turns the cardinal Environment (Protection) Act 1986 on its head, lacks in participatory mechanism and a flip back to the dark ages, these are some of the reactions that civil society and international experts had on a new proposed draft hazardous waste law amendment, at a consultation meeting held to rally opinion on the proposals and highlight its potential impact on public health and environment.

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