The cleanup finally starts 40 years on from a huge chemical leak in India, live from the UK.

This is the Marketplace Morning Report from the BBC World Service. Hello, I'm Stuart Clarkson in Fort Leanna Burn today.

Well, the authorities in India have begun moving hazardous waste from a US-owned chemical factory in Bhopal just over 40 years after a gas leak

that killed thousands of people. It was the world's worst industrial disaster. Lorry's moved soil,

residue and chemicals elsewhere in the region, despite protests from nearby communities.

Here's the BBC's Arunaday Mukherjee. The convoy of a dozen trucks moved the waste under

tight security to the site where it will be incinerated. Officials were quoted as saying that India

had never before seen such a massive movement of hazardous material. Last month, an Indian court

gave the order for the disposal of the waste, accusing the authorities of

inertia and questioning their delay. It asked whether they were waiting for another tragedy.

Locals have long complained about people falling sick due to groundwater contaminated by the

gas leak at the Union Carbide factory in 1984.

Maruna Day, Mukherjee reporting, well well, Ratchanadinga is an activist from the

international campaign for justice in Bhopal.

The total waste that has been transported to a substandard facility where it will harm more

people there and it will create a slow-motion Bhopal there is only 1% of the total waste.

The 1.1 million tonnes of toxic soil and waste still continues to contaminate the groundwater of

hundreds and thousands of people.

That's the campaigner Ratchner, Dingra.

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