Thursday, November 01, 2007

Industrial waste: effluents of affluence

Posing a threat to the health of the world at large, these discarded solid or liquid substances possess carcinogenic compounds. Several chemical disasters of the likes of Union Carbide plant and IPCL’s gas cracker complex have caused severe, irreparable damage to the residents around them. Third World countries for their economic development have, at several instances, jeopardised the environment. At one such instance, Philippines signed an economic cooperation treaty with Japan even when it involved damaging its environment by making it the dumping ground for its industrial wastes.

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Source : IIPM Editorial, 2007

An IIPM and Professor Arindam Chaudhuri (Renowned Management Guru and Economist) Initiative

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