Trucks move toxic waste from India's Bhopal gas tragedy site for disposal after decades

Record ID: 1893977

  • Title: Trucks move toxic waste from India's Bhopal gas tragedy site for disposal after decades
  • Date: 2nd January 2025
  • Summary: BHOPAL, MADHYA PRADESH, INDIA (JANUARY 01, 2025) (ANI - No use India) (NIGHT SHOTS) VARIOUS OF POLICE VEHICLES LEAVING UNION CARBIDE PESTICIDES FACTORY WHERE GAS LEAK OCCURRED IN 1984 TRUCKS CARRYING HAZARDOUS WASTE MATERIALS, LEAVING FACTORY/SIGNAGE ON TRUCKS READING (Hindi): "HAZARDOUS WASTE" (SOUNDBITE) (Hindi) BHOPAL POLICE COMMISSIONER, HARINARAYAN CHARI, SAYING: "A c
  • Embargoed: 16th January 2025 11:41
  • Keywords: 1984 40 years Dow Chemical India Bhopal gas tragedy Madhya Pradesh Union Carbide central court decades disaster disposal industrial order process toxic waste
  • Location: BHOPAL, MADHYA PRADESH, INDIA
  • City: BHOPAL, MADHYA PRADESH, INDIA
  • Country: India
  • Topics: Asia / Pacific,Disaster/Accidents
  • Reuters ID: LVA001LPMVN0V
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text:Indian authorities on Wednesday (January 01) moved at least 30 trucks to dispose and incinerate toxic waste from the site of the 1984 Bhopal gas leak disaster, which killed more than 5,000 people.
    In the early hours of Dec. 3, 1984, methyl isocyanate gas leaked from a pesticide factory owned by American Union Carbide Corporation poisoning more than half a million people in Bhopal, capital of the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh.
    Tonnes of toxic waste reached the Pithampur plant for disposal amid heavy security on Wednesday (January 01).
    A trial run for the disposal of 10 metric tons of waste was conducted in 2015 and the disposal of the remaining 337 metric tons will be completed within three to nine months, the state government said in a statement.
    The process of disposal is environmentally safe and will be done in a manner which cannot harm the environment of the local ecosystem, police said.
    Built in 1969, the Union Carbide plant, which is now owned by Dow Chemical, was seen as a symbol of industrialisation in India, generating thousands of jobs for the poor and, at the same time, manufacturing cheap pesticides for millions of farmers.
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