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Report : A Study on Lead in Household Dust in Delhi

Report : E-waste Flooding the city of joy

Report : A Brush with Toxics: An Investigation on Lead in Household Paints in India

Mumbai: Choking on E-Waste - A study on the status of e-waste in Mumbai

Toying with Toxics: An Investigation of Lead and Cadmium in Soft Toys in Three Cities in India

Clean communities: A comprehensive guide to effective solid waste management

Upscaling people’s participation in urban solid waste: constraints and prospects

Manual : Understanding and simplifying bio-medical waste management (English)

Lurking menace: Mercury in the healthcare sector

Scrapping the hi-tech myth: Computer waste in India

POPs in South Asia: Status and environmental health impacts

Making the most of a mess: A handbook on municipal solid waste (Hindi)

Making the most of a mess: A handbook on municipal solid waste (English)

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Recent Publication

Factsheet 37 on Radioactive Waste : Radwaste (English)
For close to half a century, nuclear technology has spread into many areas of modern society, enabling advances in erergy production, defence, medicine, agriculture and industrial applications. This fact sheet takes a closer look at the problem of the waste generated.

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Poster : Know e-waste for a No e-waste planet
Know e-waste for a No e-waste planet, a poster on E-waste tells about "What should you do with your e-waste.

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Bookmark : Know e-waste for a No e-waste planet
Know e-waste for a No e-waste planet, a bookmark on E-waste tells about "What should you do with your e-waste.

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Recent Article

Zero waste Community: Not a dream, but a reality.
By Bindu Milton
Published in Toxics Link
With the successful completion of three yearlong projects on zero waste management Toxics Link (TL), has proved that waste is not something to waste but to use wisely. The article takes an overview of TL’s three yearlong project on Zero waste management.

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Proposed hazardous waste management rule: A Real hazard to the environment
By Priti Mahesh
Published in Toxics Dispatch
Industrial policies since independence fostered the growth of industries in India. The rapid industrialisation has been key to the economic growth. But one of the downsides of industrialization has been the generation of large quantity of hazardous wastes. Neither the existing regulations nor the proposed hazardous waste management rule suggest any effective solution to the ever-growing problem.

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Lead Poisoning: a disease to be taken care of
By Dr. Veena Kalra
Published in Toxics Link
Lead poisoning in the community has silently taken epidemic proportions. It is a preventable disease. Combined actions and efforts of the government, public awareness, societal responsibility of industry and timely interaction of the medical community is desired. All streams of society should channelise efforts to meet the challenge. The article looks in to the details of lead poisoning in children.

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Recent Press Release

UNEP and WHO to lead initiative to remove lead from paints globally – Toxics Link proposal adopted by highest UN chemical safety global forum.
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
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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