US: Hospitals Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions by Taking a New Approach to Foodservice
HCWH US – Health Care Without Harm and the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future, part of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, have released “Balanced Menus: A Pilot Evaluation of Implementation in Four San Francisco Bay Area Hospitals,” the first US examination of the impact that reduced-meat menus in hospital food service have on climate change.  more

International: WHO & the UNDP Launch Unprecedented Global Project
International – WHO, along with UNDP, launch the first global project on public health adaptation to climate change.This series of pilot projects aim to increase adaptive capacity of national health system institutions, including field practitioners, to respond to climate-sensitive health risks.  more

UK: Dumped Medical Waste Provokes Hospital Warning
Nursing Times – Hundreds of yellow bags filled with blood, excrement, dressings and used nappies were found in the Hulver Road area, near Beccles. A spokeswoman said the three-and-a-half tonnes of waste will be disposed of by a specialist company at a treatment plant.  more

India: A Gynaecologist Chucked 15 Foetuses In A Waste Bin
indiaserver.com – Near Ahmedabad’s Shastri Stadium located in the Bapunagar area, fifteen foetuses were found disposed in a waste storage bin on Monday morning.  more

International: Group of Scientists Call for BPA Ban
eatdrinkanbe.org – The coalition of eight experts from the UK, Italy, and the US backed increasingly widespread demands to outlaw the chemical and use less dangerous replacements. According to the coalition, food contact materials containing the substance should carry warning labels, they added.  more

India: Radioactive Waste in Delhi
globalpost.com – Recycling is big business in India, which imports tons of scrap metal each year. But along with the towering heaps of steel and copper comes a mountain of hazardous waste — asbestos, lead, mercury and, it turns out, potentially deadly radioactive materials.  more

US: Climate Change May Trigger More Allergies
US Health News – Climate change has spring allergy season arriving two weeks sooner than in past decades, according to a new report by the National Wildlife Federation and the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America. A warmer climate would encourage highly allergenic trees like oaks and hickories to replace pines, spruces, and firs, which rarely provoke allergies, said wildlife federation scientist Amanda Staudt.  more

India: Climate Change Migration Could Complicate Polio Eradication Efforts
Relief Web – Migration to major cities in India is on the rise, thanks to increasingly unpredictable rains and fluctuating farm income, and is complicating an old battle: that to eradicate polio.  more

India: Stringent E-waste Disposal Rules by May
timesofindia.com – With illegal recycling of used electronic goods like mobile phones and computers posing a big environmental and health hazard, the government for the first time will now come out with stringent regulations for management and disposal of e-waste.  more

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