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Article

28 Feb 2009

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Down To Earth (India)

Dangerous business

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Disposal facilities are not the final solution, but are good business as long as subsidized. India generates 8.14 million tonnes of hazardous industrial waste in a year, according to CPCB. Of this, at least 350,000 tonnes have to be incinerated. However, the capacity of the TSDFs in the country to incinerate waste is much less 126,900 tonnes a year...Three private companies--Ramky Enviro Infrastructures Ltd, Gujarat Environment Protection and Infrastructure Ltd (GEPIL) and UPL Environmental Engineers Ltd--among them have built 22 TSDFs...Lack of fear of the law is evident in the manner TSDFs operate in India. [also refers to UPL Environmental Engineers Ltd (part of United Phosphorus Ltd.), Mumbai Waste Management (part of Ramky), MP Waste Management (part of Ramky), Holcim]

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