101. Yet everywhere there was waste, Roumbanis said. 102. Yet waste is hardly the exclusive province of the public sector. 103. A German official says the waste is not toxic and his country will decide what to do with it after the test results are in. 104. A Greenpeace spokeswoman Eva Hernandez said from the scene Monday that the waste was still dangerous as it flowed down the Guadalquivir River to the Atlantic. 105. A spokesman for the Environment Protection Department insisted that only non-contaminated waste was aboard the sunken ship. 106. Aboard Mir, the Russian space station, waste is stored in sealed containers until a module arrives with fresh supplies. 107. About half the current waste is re-used, a fifth is disposed of as regular garbage and another fifth is either dumped into sewers or released into the environment. 108. Although the site is designated as temporary, anti-nuclear activists say that since Germany has no permanent facilities, the radioactive waste is likely to stay there indefinitely. 109. Although it is designated as temporary, anti-nuclear activists say that since Germany has no permanent facilities, the radioactive waste is likely to stay at Gorleben indefinitely. 110. Any business that has contributed waste to a toxic landfill, even if the waste is not hazardous, can be forced to defend itself in Superfund litigation. |