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Press Release: The Draft E waste rules: Prefer business to the environment?
New Delhi , 18/08/2010
By Toxics Link
India’s battle with managing E-waste reached a new level, with the issuance of Draft E-waste by Ministry of Environment and Forest in May 2010.
This is a welcome step. But Toxics Link, which has been campaigning for such a separate rule for several years, feel that the rules focus too much on helping ‘business’ and less on tackling environmental impacts.
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Press Statement: Supreme Court quashes defamation case on activists by Association of Pesticide Manufacturing Companies
Warangal and New Delhi , 04/08/2010
By Toxic sLink
A two Judge bench of the Indian Supreme Court of India, on 20th July, 2010, quashed[1] the criminal defamation case against 11 activists initiated by the Crop Care Federation (formerly Pesticides Associations of India, a consortium of pesticide manufacturing companies).
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Press Release: Lead (Pb) - Not a child’s play! [High amount of lead found in children’s jewellery in India]
New Delhi , 02/07/2010
By Toxics Link
Children’s jewellery is in vogue these days. In keeping with the tendency with children to suck or chew these trinkets, what if you come to know that these embellishments contain lead, a potent neurotoxin capable of IQ deficit, brain and kidney damage, gastrointestinal symptoms such as colic, and even death due to lead poisoning?
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Press Release: SAGE Publications, Oxford Bookstore New Delhi and Toxics Link presents ‘Our Toxic World: A guide to hazardous substances in our everyday lives’
New Delhi , 24/04/2010
By SAGE Publications, Oxford Bookstore New Delhi and Toxics Link
SAGE Publications in association with Oxford Bookstore, New Delhi and Toxics Link today launched the book ‘Our Toxic World: A guide to hazardous substances in our everyday lives’ compiled and scripted by Aniruddha Sen Gupta, eminent author with illustrations by Priya Kuriyan, renowned animator and film maker. The book was released by Krishnendu Bose, renowned documentary filmmaker, in the presence of well known Educators like Chhanda Bose and Aporajito Bose, Graphic novelists Orijit Sen and Sarnath Banerjee and Environmentalist Ravi Agarwal. The launch was followed by a panel discussion and interactive session on ‘Environmental issues’ with the audiences present at the event.
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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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