111.   As long as the contaminated plastic waste is in the containers, Hamdan said, it posed no threat to the environment.

112.   Azuhan argues that even if waste is properly disposed of on land and effluents are prevented from flowing into rivers and lakes, groundwater can still be affected.

113.   Average South Koreans would find it hard to accept paying for the North Korean reactors if Taiwanese nuclear waste were stored in North Korea, he said.

114.   But Lee Chih-chun, general manager at Formosa Plastics, said the total mercury content cannot indicate whether the waste is hazardous.

115.   Coast guard officers arrested the activists after a request by Larco, which has denied the waste is environmentally hazardous.

116.   Ciorbea also said that there is severe waste in the energy, transport and agricultural sectors.

117.   City leaders and residents of the blue-collar neighborhood surrounding the Shattuck Superfund Site contend the waste is sinking and fear that contamination may have already seeped into water supplies.

118.   Currently the waste is in temporary storage near the two power plants.

119.   Despite initial denials from Formosa that the waste is toxic, multiple independent testing determined it contains dangerous levels of the poisonous metal mercury.

120.   Greenpeace has said the waste is more toxic than the original material.