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Toxic ToursToxic Tours - IX: Doing it without DDT
India is committed to eliminating POPs. The Hindustan Insecticide factory in Cochin is the only facility where the controversial pesticide DDT continues to be manufactured More... Toxic Tours - VIII: Mount GarbageEvery day, over 3,000 tonnes of garbage are added to Smoky Valley, a garbage dump on the outskirts of Quezon city in the Philippines. This huge grey mountain of rubbish forces us to examine how we deal with the growing waste problem resulting from modern-day lifestyles More... Toxic Tours - VII: Why Vaideyee the fisherman will probably end up in a Chennai slumOver 100 hamlets of estuarine fisherfolk thrived on the banks of the Uppanar in Tamil Nadu. But that was before the Cuddalore SIPCOT industrial estate altered the riverine eco-system, poisoned the river, killed the fish and robbed Vaideyee and his community of fisherfolk of their traditional livelihoods More... Toxic Tours - VI: Tracking the Dirty Dozen across NepalThe Stockholm treaty on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) calls for an immediate ban, withdrawal, retrieval and containment of a host of man-made poisons. And yet, in a warehouse in Patan, Nepal, many of the deadly date-expired pesticides known as the Dirty Dozen had been lying around for years. Similar stockpiles of over 50 million tonnes of obsolete pesticides are lying around the world in forgotten warehouses and dumps, mostly in third world countries More... Toxic Tours - V: Golden Corridor: The highway to hellMountains of toxic sludge, stinking, blood-red rivers, blue dogs, water that turns red on exposure to air and sunlight -- the chemical industrial belt between Vapi and Ahmedabad in Gujarat is a toxic nightmare. More... Toxic Tours - IV: Mercury rising in KodaikanalBroken mercury thermometers and other toxic waste from the thermometer-manufacturing plant in Kodaikanal can be found in waste-pits alongside the factory premises and in scrapyards bang in the middle of the town. Even as Greenpeace and other agencies investigate the problem, the placid residents of this picturesque hill station seem unaware of the consequences of mercury contamination. More... Toxic Tours - III: Bhopal's forgotten chemical stockpilePhoto-journalist Shailendra Yashwant revisits the deserted Union Carbide factory where the world's worst industrial disaster occurred on December 2, 1984. And finds on the premises several drums containing deadly chemical ingredients for the pesticide sevin, exposed to all the elements, leaching into the groundwater. Seventeen years, and the place hasn't even been cleaned up. More... Toxic Tours - II: Alang: Death zoneIn the first of a new series that takes readers to various toxic hotspots across the subcontinent, photo-journalist Shailendra Yashwant travels to Alang in Gujarat, where 400 ships come every year to die. Here, unshod and completely unprotected workers handle a deadly cocktail of heavy metals and toxic substances released in the course of ship-breaking, in blatant contravention of the Basel Convention, which restricts all signatory nations from trading in hazardous waste. More... Toxic Tours - I: Guntur: The heart of the Bt cotton controversyShailendra Yashwant travels to Guntur in Andhra Pradesh, centre of the cotton ginning industry and a town that reeks of pesticides, where the controversial field-trials of genetically-altered Bt Cotton are quietly going ahead More... |
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