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Simmering

Pottery units, papad -makers, leather workers, furniture makers, even dance bars: Dharavi is a bustling economy now threatened by builder-driven …

More firms ban leather

New process to minimise chemical, energy use in making leather

Rs 67 crore later

...In Kanpur's Jajmau area, chromium enters food chain. How spent is the Ganga Action Plan?

Tannery convicted

Peta's Pet

UK-based animal welfare group People for Ethical Treatment of Animals has been campaigning against Indian leather, alleging ill-treatment of …

More dirt on GAP

The much-hyped sewage treatment plants installed in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, under the Ganga Action Plan are proving to be ineffective. A report …

Tanned Order

Authorities and the leather industry owners in Tamil Nadu dodge court orders, while a few individuals raise voices to save their ecosystems from …

Cattle can no longer be traded for the purposes of slaughter: Centre

Sale of cattle for slaughter at animal markets banned; now cattle can only be sold for ‘agricultural purposes’  

Why Ganga Action Plan is a pipe dream

A US ban on kangaroo leather would be an animal welfare disaster — and a missed farming opportunity

Weakening the industry will result in more kangaroo suffering, not less.

Getting the tan right

Removing chromium from effluent of leather units

Tangible shift

Bioprocessing - the Indian leather industry braces itself for an environmental facelift

Making CETPs work

The pollution commons

CETPs: in fashion

Neither voluntary nor compliant

India's first ever Charter on Corporate Responsibility for Environmental Protection, unveiled amid much hype on March 13 in New Delhi, has turned …

The small big polluter

Small-scale industries: Where regulations are meaningless and pollution control an unaffordable luxury. Can they leapfrog to cost-effective …

Kolkata tanners unhappy with new relocation site

Have technology, will survive

A green agenda based on the paradigm of pollution prevention can rescue the small-scale industry

Mere plans

Government proposes. Industry disposes. Programmes for cleaning up have very largely gone by the wayside

The dirty dozens

The small big polluter

Resource crunch and poor regulatory processes have made small-scale industries the pariahs of India's environment