CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -The project would come up in SAIL’s flagship Bhilai steel plant (BSP).

Detailed explanation-2: -SAIL-BSP is the first industry using plasma technology for the disposal of hazardous waste for the conservation of natural resources .

Detailed explanation-3: -plasma arc gasification (PAG), waste-treatment technology that uses a combination of electricity and high temperatures to turn municipal waste (garbage or trash) into usable by-products without combustion (burning).

Detailed explanation-4: -(i) It can be used for the disposal of hazardous and radioactive waste. (ii) Oxides of Sulphur and Nitrogen are the polling gases produced in this process. (iii) The technology has not been tried anywhere in India.

Detailed explanation-5: -These Rules came into effect in the year 1989 and have been amended later in the years 2000, 2003 and with final notification of the Hazardous Waste ( Management, Handling and Transboundary Movement) Rules, 2008 in supersession of former notification.