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27th Jun 2010 - Hindustan Times
The air in your city may appear clean but its smallest and least visible pollutant is its deadliest. A new study revealed a pollutant, called particulate matter (PM) 2.5, can cause lung cancer and cardiac ailments and can stay buried inside the body ...
04th Mar 2007 - http://enews.toxicslink.org/feature-view.php?id=4
The mismanagement of solid waste in urban areas poses a grave threat to public health and the quality of life of people living in those areas. Up to now there has been no comprehensive policy in India that deals with the whole cycle of waste ...
10th Mar 2009 - http://www.bionomicfuel.com/municipal-solid-waste-energy-societys-double-benefit/
With municipal solid waste energy, society receives a double benefit. Municipal solid waste management means finding ways to eliminate millions of tons of municipal solid waste, often called MSW, each and every year. Global warming and the state of t...
08th May 2008 - http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/content/improving-municipal-solid-waste-management-india
Solid waste management (SWM) is a matter of great concern in the urban areas of developing countries. This report covers very lucidly the present scenario of SWM in urban areas, the system deficiencies that exist, and the steps that need to be taken ...
05th Jun 2010 - Business Standard
It's a bit of an obvious thing to do, but Attero Recycling has its plant in a green building. About 10 kilometres from Roorkee on the road to Dehradun, it is difficult to miss. As we reach the gates, a security guard stops our car and says n...
25th May 2010 - http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/draft-e-waste-rule-is-progressiveinclusive-greenpeace/396006/
Greenpeace today called for a swift adoption of the Draft E-Waste (Management & Handling) Rule, 2010 by the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) and said that it was by far the most progressive and fundamentally robust framework cre...
27th Jan 2010 - http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/panel-begins-framing-e-waste-disposal-rules/383803/
With electronic and electrical waste (e-waste) emerging as the new by-products of fast economic growth, the Union environment ministry is framing rules that pin the responsibility for disposal on the producer. Eleven recycling units are expected to c...
16th Dec 2009 - http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/law-to-make-producers-responsible-for-e-waste/379656/
Starting next fiscal, consumers in India will be no more required to bother about managing their electronic and electrical equipment at the end of the lifecycle. The Centre is in the process of bringing out a legislation based on the draft proposals ...
15th Dec 2009 - http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/rulese-waste-management-by-march-next-year/80894/on
The government today said draft rules on managing e-waste will be ready by March next year. "The government is currently in the process of developing a dedicated set of rules, which would govern the management and handling of electronic wast...
11th Sep 2009 - http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/tackling-e-waste/369746/
The New Delhi Municipal Committee’s reported plan to tie up with a private company to get electronic waste (e-waste) recycled and disposed of safely seems a well-conceived move aimed at tackling the health and environmental hazards posed by dis...