For nearly two decades, tonnes of chromium-bearing waste have been lying on an open land within the abandoned premises of the Tamil Nadu Chromates and Chemicals Limited (TCCL) at the SIPCOT Industrial ...

Chromium, particularly in its hexavalent form (Cr(VI)), is a pervasive contaminant in effluents and solid residues generated by electroplating, leather tanning, pigment manufacture and chromite ore ...