Article: UK GOVERNMENT: Government announces new research pr programme on the impacts on health of landfill sites.

Article: LARGEST EVER STUDY INTO HEALTH OF POPULATIONS AROUND ...
PR Newswire;  August 16, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... the presence of the landfill sites. Dr Pat Troop ... there is no risk from landfill sites, but given the small ... Government-funded research programme to investigate the possible impact of landfill sites on human health ...

Article: New research gives landfill sites a green future.
M2 Presswire;  May 30, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... UK Government: New research gives landfill sites a green future(C)1994-2008 M2 ... COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:30052008 Restoring landfill sites by turning them into greenspace, such ... today shows. Many local people find landfill sites detrimental to their local area and ...

Article: Child defects 'higher near landfill sites'
Evening News - Scotland;  August 16, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... been found in children born near landfill sites, a study revealed today. The ... first to suggest a risk from landfill sites which do not take hazardous waste. There are about 300 licensed landfill sites in Scotland, taking about 12 ...

Article: Landfill sites linked to risk of birth defects ...
The Independent - London;  August 17, 2001 ;     700+ words ...BABIES BORN near landfill sites for hazardous waste are at extra ... babies born near the 774 special landfill sites in Britain which take hazardous ... was not possible to determine landfill sites were the cause, it said. More ...

Adverse pregnancy outcomes near landfill sites in Cumbria, ...
Archives of Environmental Health;  November 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... of domestic and industrial waste in landfill sites may expose local residents to dioxins ... associated with living in proximity to landfill sites, especially those sites which deal ... babies whose mothers lived close to landfill sites used for the disposal of hazardous ...

Article: Study Investigates Health Of Populations Around Landfill ...
Health & Medicine Week;  September 17, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... health risks for populations living around landfill sites was published in the August 17, 2001 ... populations living within two kilometers of landfill sites. The group examined 9,565 landfill sites that were in operation between 1982 and ...

Article: Plan to establish two landfill-sites in limbo.
The Nation (Karachi, Pakistan);  October 2, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... standing plan to establish two new landfill sites costing Rs 800 million in the ... been lying in limbo. Two new landfill sites: one at Kachah and the other ... to acquire the land for the landfill-sites without any delay. But the ...