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India’s UPL applies to flush toxic pesticides into South African sea

India’s UPL applies to flush toxic pesticides into South African sea

INDIAN agrochemicals manufacturer UPL Ltd has applied for permission to flush water contaminated by a toxic pesticide spill in South Africa's city of Durban directly into the sea or the sewerage system, the company said. The municipal authorities have judged the pesticides -- which were being contained in a dam that overflowed during devastating floods that struck the eastern port city earlier this month -- as being "highly toxic to the environment". Looters set fire to a UPL warehouse containing the pesticides during a wave of looting and arson in July last year. That caused a chemical spill which shut down…
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