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India's Hazardous Materials (Management, Handling and Transboundary Movement) Rules

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Basel Action Network BAN and Toxics Link press release, 14 November 2007 (New Delhi): “…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.

  • Government of India, Ministry of Environment & Forests: Hazardous Materials (Management, Handling and Transboundary Movement) Rules, 2007.
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