Event
Burning of the Bhopal plant’s waste, 2025
Waste from the Union Carbide plant site in Bhopal was trucked to Pithampur in January 2025 and burned there; an official said 337 tons had been burned by 30 June, with the ash and residue still to be buried.
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- Jan–Jun 2025
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- Bhopal where the waste had lain; it was burned at Pithampur Scholarship & press 12
- Government of Madhya Pradesh its Bhopal Gas Tragedy Relief and Rehabilitation Department moved the waste Scholarship & press 1
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- Jan–Jun 2025 Burning of the Bhopal plant’s waste, 2025
Proof 2 sources
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After 40 years, hazardous waste from Union Carbide plant shifted out of Bhopal, Scroll.in (with PTI), 2 Jan 2025.
Scholarship & press
The shifting of some of the 377 tons of toxic waste from Bhopal’s abandoned Union Carbide factory began on Wednesday night, forty years after the gas tragedy, PTI reported.
PTI quoted Swatantra Kumar Singh, the director of the Bhopal Gas Tragedy Relief and Rehabilitation Department, as saying.
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Over 300 tons of Union Carbide waste burnt at Pithampur plant, Telangana Today (with PTI), 30 Jun 2025.
Scholarship & press
All 337 tons of waste of the now defunct Union Carbide factory in Bhopal has been burnt to ashes at a disposal plant in Pithampur
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