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Press Release : School eliminates E waste
New Delhi , 27/01/2010
By Toxics Link
Under an initiative by Toxics Link and St Paul’s school’s team of eleven students, part of the eco club of the school, along with teacher in-charge Manju Chawla, have pioneered this task of spreading the word about e waste hazards and the need for its safe management.
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Book Release - Half Life: Radioactive Waste In India
New Delhi , 03/12/2009
By Toxics Link
Nuclear Energy generation is slated to rise in the coming decades from the present 3 percent to upto 20 percent in the energy mix of India. With climate change concerns, nuclear energy is now being brought back and reconsidered as 'clean' and 'zero cost' energy. The amount of waste created will increase manifold.
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State seeks support from Toxics link for Biomedical Waste Management in Uttarakhand
Dehradun , 26/11/2009
By Toxics Link
One –third of the healthcare facilities in Uttarakhand are not registered. They are also running out of compliance with regard to biomedical waste management and handling rules, 1998. Responding to the need of streamlining efforts towards a better management of biomedical waste in the healthcare sector, Toxics Link, A Voluntary organization based in New Delhi, organized a “Regional Workshop on Initiatives Towards Making Health Care Toxics Free” at Hotel Pacific in Dehradun on 25 Nov 2009.
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Two-day International Conference on Heavy Metals and E-waste organized by Toxics Link
New Delhi , 26/10/2009
By Toxics Link
New Delhi, 26th October 2009 – Toxics Link organized a two-day International Conference on Heavy metals and E-waste on 26-27 October at India Habitat Centre. The conference attempts to bring important international and national expertise and various stakeholders to collaborate on the development of research, policy and management strategies for the future. It also focuses to increase awareness on the issues in South Asian region.
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Government opens floodgates for e-waste dumping - Permissions given for e-waste imports with no effort for collecting Indian waste
New Delhi , 22/09/2009
By Toxics Link
Due to reasons known only to the Ministry of Environment and Forests, Government of India, a recycling plant, barely a year old based out of Rajpur Industrial Area in Roorkie, under the name of M/s Attero Pvt Ltd, has been given permission for import of 8000 MT of hazardous E-waste from UK and USA. Now the over 10 to 15 recyclers who have recently started operating in India, all of them with hardly any installed capacity, are trying to get import permissions based on this clearance
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UNEP and WHO to lead initiative to remove lead from paints globally – Toxics Link proposal adopted by highest UN chemical safety global forum.
New Delhi , 27/05/2009
By Toxics Link
25 May 2009, New Delhi: In the recently concluded Second Session of the International Conference on Chemicals Management (ICCM-2) held 11-15 May 2009 endorsed a global partnership to promote phasing out the use of lead in paints.
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Press Release : Hepatitis B outbreak in Modasa - Another scary tale of medical waste management
New Delhi , 05/03/2009
By Toxics Link
5th March 2009, New Delhi: According to the CPCB annual report more than 50% of the medical waste in the country is left untreated every day and this accounts to approximately 18MT of contaminated infectious medical waste open to the common man. Flouting industry and erring hospitals apart, even the government departments are not serious. Out of the states surveyed by the Comptroller and Auditor General only 46% of the states were monitoring the implementation of Bio- medical waste management (CAG Report 2007).
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Press Release : INDIA JOINS WORLD TO EFFECT GLOBAL ACTION ON MERCURY
New Delhi , 23/02/2009
By Toxics Link
More than 140 countries decided to pursue a global treaty on mercury at the 25th UNEP Governing Council meeting. Defying expectations, world environmental ministers agreed last week in Nairobi to begin negotiating a treaty to control global mercury pollution. The decision noted the urgent need for international action due to "the serious adverse effects of mercury on human health and the environment." Negotiations will start later this year.
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Silver Poison in Fish Platter
New Delhi , 06/02/2009
By Toxics Link and Disha
February 6, 2009,New Delhi/INDIA: Toxics Link in association with DISHA released a study report on levels of Mercury found in fish collected from Kolkata and other locations in West Bengal.
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Towards Green Clean Computers
New Delhi , 13/01/2009
By Toxics Link
`Green Computer’ has already become the buzzword of the day. The manufacturers across the world are trying to manufacture the greenest computer for the safety of environment. The latest entrant to join this bandwagon is none other than Apple with its latest MacBook Pro touted as one of the greenest machines that the computing world has ever known.
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