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Thousands of people took to the streets of a city in eastern China to protest against a possible Sino-French nuclear project.

More than 100 tonnes of clams have perished in central Vietnam because of a possible toxic leak into the sea near an industrial zone.

Karachaganak Petroleum Operating has been fined for improper storage of 64.22 tons of liquid waste at Karachaganak field.

Construction of a hazardous waste recycling plant is planned in Pavlodar.

The unpleasant smell in Astana caused by sewage waters discharged into Taldykol Lake near the capital city will be eliminated by 2017.

A university in East Kazakhstan has developed a new method for wastewater purification from heavy metals.

Kazakhstan is planning to build two nuclear power plants and dispose waste at the Semipalatinsk Test Site.

Oil wastes were burning in one of Aktaus' industrial zones in Kazakhstan's West.

A hazardous waste recycling plant worth $100 million will be built in Pavlodar in Kazakhstan’s north.

Kazakh Ministry and UNDP have shipped 80 tonnes of hazardous sovtol from Kazakhstan to France and disposed of it there.

‘Green’ energy will be generated from 30% of all the wastes in Kazakhstan by 2050.

More than 100 thousand tons of chemical waste is piled out in the open air near Aktau in western Kazakhstan.

51 million tons of radioactive wastes are kept at the storage facility for uranium-containing wastes of Koshkar-Ata chemical plant near Aktau.

Kazakhstan is getting year another coal fueled power plant, a South Korean-owned one this time.

The chemical wastes dumpsite will open in Pavlodar.

Garbage has caught fire at a solid domestic waste dump in Mangistau oblast on July 20.

On a recent rainy Sunday morning in a Mexico City neighborhood, people lined up under their umbrellas with bags of empty milk cartons, plastic bottles and cardboard at their feet.

Wal-Mart was hit with $110 million in US federal and state fines Tuesday after pleading guilty to criminal charges of mishandling hazardous waste and pesticides at its retail stores.

With too many people chucking their garbage into neighbours' bins -- or worse, the woods -- to avoid paying for disposal, Poland has taken on a massive overhaul of its laissez-faire waste management system.

All projects of long-term placement of arsenic wastes in Zyryanovsk region suggested by KazZinc were turned down by Kazakhstan government.