Oxidising hazardous wastes

Garbage festival

Rightful air

The Philippines finally enacts a law to reduce pollution and bans incineration of waste

Up in arms

MONEYMAKERS

The real killers

The biggest cause of lead pollution may be incinerated waste, not vehicles

The incinerator war

Trash power

Dropping dioxin limits

Civil action

Closing shop

A ban on incinerators is on the anvil in Saitama, Japan

A burning problem

Backyard burning releases more dioxins into the air than municipal incinerators

THAILAND

South Asia

Good riddance

Toxic threat

KUALA LUMPUR

INACTIVE GOVERNMENT

Trash: handle with care

Slow and unsteady

Messing around with regulations

In court

OBSOLETE PESTICIDES

In the dumps

Delhi hospitals continue to flout biomedical waste management norms

If the burner's too big, make it fit

A pharmaceutical multinational in India has set up an incinerator that suits it just fine