IIT researchers study policy tools to reduce lead pollution
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‘27.5 crore children affected by high exposure to lead’
Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology at Madras and Kanpur have suggested tax reduction on regulated recycling sector and subsidies to regulated recycling and re-manufacturing sectors to reduce lead pollution from lead-acid batteries. In their effort to develop policy guidelines to reduce lead pollution, the researchers have called for a high subsidy to formal re-manufacturing sector that would shut down regulated and unregulated lead recycling sectors. When lead acid batteries are broken it causes acid and lead dust spill in the soil and the surroundings. Lead, when melted in open furnaces, results in poisonous gases permeating the air.More Related News
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