21/05/2010
• India’s Pesticides Management Bill 2008 – 40 years on …has something changed?
By Rajeev Betne, Piyush Mohapatra
Published in Toxics Link; 21/05/2010
This is an issue where every citizen is a stakeholder… a wide range of consultations should follow...so that we move towards a safer and healthier regime”
08/04/2010
• Minor Minerals Need Major ‘Mindmining’ in India
By Rajeev Betne
Published in Toxics Link; 08/04/2010
About a year back Ministry of environment and Forest, Government of India constituted a group to look into the environmental aspect of mining of minor minerals in India.
03/03/2010
• Sustainable E-waste Management
By Satish Sinha
Published in Toxics Link; 03/03/2010
The twentieth century marked the beginning of use of equipments like radio, television and a ground breaking discovery - the first computer. Innovation and development in the field of science and technology and an open global market resulted in availability of a range of products at affordable prices, changing the very lifestyle of societies.
10/12/2009
• How safe are the products we use?
By Ravi Agarwal
Published in Civil Society Magazine; 10/12/2009
The beautiful enamel paint on our freshly painted walls, could be deadly. It could contain a load full of lead, a heavy metal which significantly reduces the IQ of children exposed to it. Similarly the child's cot or toy, which is often chewed and licked by the infant, could be delivering a life time load of the toxic into her body.
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