41.   European Community Environment Commissioner, Carlo Ripa di Meana, has called on ministers to approve a draft agreement on the handling and transport of toxic waste.

42.   The new findings have implications for the burial of radioactive and other toxic waste.

43.   Plans are also afoot to transform the disused salt mines of Saxony and Thuringia into depositories for toxic waste.

44.   He said that petro-chemical plants with little or no pollution controls were releasing hundreds of thousands of tonnes of toxic waste into the atmosphere every year.

45.   A recent US Natural Resources Defense Council report has announced that oil wells in the Ecuadorian Amazon already generate four millions of toxic waste every day.

46.   Hundreds of gallons of toxic waste from US bases are being shipped into Britain for disposal, despite denials by the government.

47.   Residents are concerned that toxic waste may be dumped.

48.   Overfishing by foreign vessels and toxic waste dumping were also major causes for concern at their annual summit.

49.   The US Environmental Protection Agency has announced plans to cut payments to private contractors for the management of toxic waste.

50.   The EPA also plans to speed up the selection of clean-up strategies and to standardise methods for eliminating toxic waste.