Bhopal: First trial burning of toxic waste clears green test, claim officials
Source: Indian Express, Date: , 2015
Around 346 tonnes of hazardous
waste has been lying in the Union Carbide factory since Dec 1984. A decade
after it snowballed into a constant feud between the government and
environmentalists, the first trial incineration of about 10 tonnes of toxic
waste from the Bhopal gas tragedy has been completed with officials saying that
the level of emissions and ambient air quality from the burning was within
permissible limits. “Trial burning emissions were within limit for particulate
matter, sulphur dioxide and nitrogen dioxide. Combustion efficiency results of
other parameters are expected in four-five days but we expect them also to be
within limits,” said officials associated with the trial.