Tag: toxicity
Life saving equipment a dream for sewage workers
Imagine walking around on a hot, humid summer day. You feel sweaty, tired, and dehydrated. Now imagine if you were unblocking sewers full of human excrement with your bare hands in such heat. Sewer cleaners in Walhe village of Maharashtra continue to work with human waste, refuse, and toxic fumes...
Resisting Exploitation In The Maximum City
In Mumbai, workers employed by the biggest biomedical waste treatment factory are on strike, demanding better work conditions.
Plastic Industry, Toxic Concerns
Malegaon’s booming illegal plastic industry causes illness and injury amongst its workers.
TB Kills In Punjab’s Dirty Slum
A tuberculosis epidemic is spreading in Durga colony, Ludhiana, while health care remains scarce.