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Government
lax in phasing out incineration
Rita
Dutta - Mumbai
The Ministry of Environment and Forest has signed the
Stockholm convention in May 2002 to phase out incineration.
The Stockholm Convention, which 122 countries have already
signed, identified 12 of the most dangerous Persistent
Organic Pollutants (POPs), and focuses on reducing and
eliminating their use. Ironically, the Bio Medical Wastes
(Management and Handling) Rules, 1998 mentions incineration
for three categories of waste.
Except for a few states, the various state pollution
control boards have failed to take action even against
incinerators which are not following the pollution control
standards. Irked by the apathy of the government, 34
NGOs have formed a consortium of Health and Us- Medical
waste Action Network (HuMAN) so that the government
take cognisance of incinerators as a toxic technology
and intensify its efforts of phasing out incineration.
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