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Article

28 May 2007

Author:
Rupam Jain Nair, Reuters

Disposing Bhopal waste "child's play" -Indian firm [India]

[Bharuch Environ Infrastructure Limited (BEIL)]…[said] it would dispose of hazardous waste left over from the world's worst industrial disaster in Bhopal by burning it, sparking environmental concerns…"Disposing the controversial Union Carbide waste is child's play for us," said BEIL chairman Ashok Punjwani…In Dec. 1984, tonnes of toxic gas leaked from a pesticide plant…then owned by Union Carbide [now part of Dow Chemical]...Environmentalists say the decision to move the tar-smeared waste to neighbouring Gujarat will be disastrous and are protesting against it…[they] filed a petition...in the Bhopal High Court to prevent the move but the court has yet to hear the case.