http://pelings.com/ India is also the location of the Alang shipyards where half of all the ships that are salvaged around the world are sent for recycling. Hundreds of manual laborers dismantle the ships, often in very dangerous conditions. ...
Saturday, 12 September 2015
They end up in incinerators or landfills instead.
http://pelings.com/ Unfortunately, the country has poorly equipped facilities which cannot effectively process the waste so they end up in incinerators or landfills instead. ...
India illegal e-waste.
http://pelings.com/ According to reports, a lot of European waste including metals, textiles and tires end up in India along with a lot of illegal e-waste. ...
The town of Guiyi
http://pelings.com/ The town of Guiyi is one of the biggest dumping hubs where the roads are lined with discarded electronics....
China manufactures
http://pelings.com/ China manufactures a lot of electronic devices, and many of these devices are shipped back as e-waste despite the bans that are in place...
In the past Nigeria
http://pelings.com/ In the past Nigeria also found itself the dumping ground for toxic waste from countries such as Italy....
Every day, the port city of Lagos
http://pelings.com/ Every day, the port city of Lagos (where there is a giant electronics market) in Nigeria receive an estimated 15 shipping containers filled with discarded electronics. Most of the electronics are unfortunately broken and beyond repair so they end up in dumps where people scavenge for valuable...
The port of Manila
http://pelings.com/ The containers were suposed to contain plastic for recycling but when they were opened, garbage such as dirty diapers were found along with the plastic....
A former wetland
http://pelings.com/ A former wetland, Agbogbloshie is now known as one of the world’s biggest dumps where scores of workers burn waste and strip valuables from obsolete electronics. ...
Ghana e-waste
http://pelings.com/ Ghana, Africa is one of the countries where e-waste from all over the world “go to die”. The hardest hit region is the Agbogbloshie, or as the locals call it, “Sodom and Gomorrah”....
Nakuru
http://pelings.com/Nakuru is an agricultural town in western Kenya, about 140 miles west of Nairobi, and was once the cleanest in east and central Africa....
Friday, 11 September 2015
UNEP and Partners Step up Conservation Efforts for Kenya's Tana River
http://pelings.com/ The Tana River - Kenya's longest - plays a vital role in the country's economy, with the basin covering around 20 per cent of Kenya's total land area. The basin supplies 80 per cent of the drinking water for Kenya's capital, Nairobi, and about 32 per cent...
Turkana
http://pelings.com/ Lake Turkana is notable as a major volume of (more or less) fresh water in an otherwise arid and barren part of the county, while a number of rivers, including the Turkwel, Kerio, Athi-Galana, Tana and Northern and Southern Ewaso Ng’iro, flow for long distances through dry...
One of the many waterfalls on the kathita river. This is how beautiful unpolluted water looks like
http://pelings.com/ How to stop the mess It is difficult to prevent city rivers from being polluted, but it is not impossible. It is easy to prevent rivers from drying up. Enough with the conferences, enough with NEMA and other organizations in charge of conserving the environment. Here are...
Experts call for quick action and better policies to save the Nzoia
http://pelings.com/ So huge was the number of dead fish that local health experts warned the villagers, via a local FM station, not to eat the fish fearing they might have been contaminated and unfit for human consumption. But some ignored the warning....
The extremely polluted ngong river, probably the dirtiest river in Africa.
http://pelings.com/ As if drying up of Kenyan rivers is not enough, we are polluting them with more waste than our toilets can handle. The biggest victims are the Nairobi, Ngong and Mathare rivers. They are so dirty you can smell them from a mile. These three rivers eventually...
Nema moves to curb river pollution
http://pelings.com/ The National Environment Management Authority (NEMA) is working with Athi Water Services Board (AWSB) to urgently tackle the issue of pollution on River Galana....
Thursday, 10 September 2015
Fireplaces for cooking
http://pelings.com/ The wood is used in traditional open and very inefficient three stone fireplaces for cooking – the air is full of soot....
Women carry firewood
http://pelings.com/ Women carry firewood in the Imenti forest, Eastern Kenya on April 29, 2015. In some countries, deforestation has denuded much of the arable land....
Charcoal burning
http://pelings.com/ Police and Kenya Forestry officers tour a section of a forest cleared by encroachers in Rift Valley. Experts are warning that continued deforestation in Kitui and Tharaka Nithi could turn regions into deserts....
Wednesday, 9 September 2015
The Banqiao Dam Collapse, China
The worst dam collapse ever killed an estimated 171,000 people in the floods of 1975. The causes of the dam failure were both natural and man-made. The amount of rainfall received by the area was double the amount the dam had been constructed to withhold. However investigations have...
Bhopal Gas Tragedy, India
The worst industrial tragedy ever known was a result of utter negligence on part of a pesticide manufacturing company and incompetence of the government authorities. Over 500,000 people were exposed to the deadly methyl isocyanate and other chemicals leaking from the pesticide plant of Union Carbide India Ltd...
Chernobyl Disaster, Ukraine
The Chernobyl disaster occurred at Chernobyl Nuclear Plant, Ukraine is considered to be the worst nuclear power plant disaster ever as the explosion and fire released large quantities of radioactive particles into the atmosphere which spread over much of the western USSR and Europe. On April 26, 1986,...
Oppau Explosion, Germany
One of the biggest chemical disasters happened in the Oppau, Germany plant of BASF, the world’s largest chemical company, on September 21, 1921 when a tower silo storing 4500 tonnes of a mixture of ammonium sulphate and ammonium nitrate fertilizer exploded. The explosion killed about 500-600 people and...
Enschede Fireworks Disaster, Netherlands
Enshede fireworks disaster was a calamitous incident killing 23 people, injuring 940 and destroying over 1500 buildings as the fireworks exploded at the SE Fireworks depot on May 13, 2000 in the city of Enschede, Netherlands. It was discovered that a fire began in the work area of...
Deepwater Horizon explosion.
April 20, 2010 – Deepwater Horizon explosion. An explosion at the Deepwater Horizon offshore drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico killed 11 workers, injured 17 others and resulted in the largest oil spill in the history of the petroleum industry. Media reports indicate that management knew key...
Health & Safety
Health & Safety Accident prevention and investigation; emergency response planning; ergonomics, job safety analysis, safe work permit programs; personal protective equipment programs; process safety.http://pelings.com/...
Industrial Hygiene
Industrial hygiene program development; hazardous material management (e.g. asbestos, lead); indoor environmental quality, airborne monitoring, ventilation design and assessment; training; noise measurement and control; radiation measurement and control.http://pelings.com/ ...
Human Health & Toxicology Services Pelings human health and toxicology team performs a range of services covering human health and ecological risk assessment for Environmental Impact Assessments (EIA) and contaminated site management; human health and environmental toxicology, including REACH analysis related to product development; public health considerations; chemical...
Exxon Valdez Oil Spill, Alaska It is considered to be one of the most devastating human-caused environmental disasters claiming a huge toll on aquatic flora and fauna when on March 24, 1989, Exxon Valdez, an oil tanker targeted to Long Beach, California, hit the Bligh Island Reef, Prince...
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