• Focus on waste as a public health issue first! Not just as a resource for the industry
New Delhi , 12/12/2007
By Toxics Link
Flagging the issue of waste management as a critical public health and environmental concern, organisations, experts and professionals from across India today urged that the issue of waste management should not be reduced to projection of waste as an economic resource at the cost of the basic principal of waste reduction and its safe management.

• India's proposed waste law to officially turn it into global waste destination: Environmentalists
New Delhi, 14/11/2007
By Toxics Link and BAN
Environmentalists say that the newly drafted hazardous waste management law for India seeks to undo established, science-based definitions of waste and consider waste that is being recycled somehow less hazardous than the waste being landfilled in order to curry favor with hazardous scrapping industries.

• World's largest para-military force to show the way to be at peace with the environment
New Delhi, 23/10/2007
By Toxics Link
In a major move towards management of household waste through community involvement and limiting of waste ending up at landfills, the Director General of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), S.I.S Ahmed, today hinted that zero-waste management projects could soon be taken up for implementation across the country at the residential and official establishments under the force.

• Kolkata emerging as a major hazardous electronic waste recycling hub
Kolkata, 24/09/2007
By Toxics Link
Even as the Central Pollution Control Body seeks feedback on the draft guidelines on e-waste management in the country, Delhi-based Toxics Link has released a pioneering study mapping the e-waste scenario in Kolkata.

• Indian Paints High on Lead: Study
New Delhi, 12/09/2007
By Toxics Link
Close on the heels of a shocking study about high levels of heavy metals in plastic and PVC toys, cutting across brands and country of make, Toxics Link today released a new study that found dangerously high amounts of lead in household paint samples picked from Delhi and Mumbai markets.

• Landfills not a solution to Delhi's urban waste crisis: DPCC
New Delhi, 21/07/2007
By Toxics Link
With all the three existing landfills in the National Capital Territory of Delhi running out of capacity and the State Government announcing new sites for fresh landfills, the Delhi Pollution Control Committee (DPCC), a nodal environmental body for the Capital, today said landfills were not a solution for the current Municipal Solid Waste crisis in the city.

• Mercury in measuring devices will soon be history in Europe!
New Delhi, 16/07/2007
By Toxics Link
In a major breakthrough for anti-mercury campaigners across the globe, particularly in Europe, it is now official that mercury-based barometers will be on the list of banned products that contain the deadly neurotoxin, in the backdrop of the recent European Parliament vote seeking to place a complete ban on its trade by 2010.

• EU parliament's resolution on banning Mercury trade welcomed
Toxics Link calls for Indian Government to take stock
New Delhi, 22/06/2007
By Toxics Link
Hailing the passing of a resolution to ban mercury trade by the European Union Parliament, Delhi-based Toxics Link has urged the Indian Government to take a cue from the move against the lethal heavy metal by banning its import and phasing out its usage in the country.

• Stop it and store it! EU must safely manage excess mercury
New Delhi, 12/06/2007
By Toxics Link
Anti-mercury campaigners throughout Europe urged EU leaders to ensure excess mercury is held in secure, constantly monitored sites. The European Commission will give its opinion on amendments proposed by the European Parliament's Environment Committee, before Parliament votes on the issue on June 19-20, 2007.

• Toxics Link calls for focus on electronic waste issue on Environment Day
New Delhi, 04/06/2007
By Toxics Link
On the eve of the World Environment Day, Toxics Link has called for an associated focus on the worsening challenge of electronic waste with India generating an approximate 1,45,000 tonnes of e-waste each year and almost all of it is being recycled in poor urban locality, exposing people and environment to deadly toxins.

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. Focus on waste as a public health issue first! Not just as a resource for the industry
. India's proposed waste law to officially turn it into global waste destination: Environmentalists
. World's largest para-military force to show the way to be at peace with the environment
. Kolkata emerging as a major hazardous electronic waste recycling hub
. Indian Paints High on Lead: Study