1.   In one city, contaminated waste was dumped next to a shopping centre.

2.   Thermal Pure Systems, which sterilized contaminated medical waste, recently ceased operations.

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

4.   Authorities have ordered the arrest of two Lebanese in connection with the shipment by two German companies of contaminated plastic waste from Europe to Beirut, judicial sources said.

5.   Fouad Hamdan, a spokesman for the international environmental organization Greenpeace, said Saturday the contaminated plastic waste had been shipped to Beirut by two German companies.

6.   Fouad Hamdan, a spokesman for the international environmental organization, Greenpeace, said Saturday the contaminated plastic waste had been shipped to Beirut by two German companies.

7.   Hamdan maintained that the contaminated waste cannot be recycled and posed a threat to the environment.

8.   Hamdan maintained that the contaminated waste could not be recycled and posed a threat to the environment.

9.   Merkel banned transport of highly contaminated nuclear waste, such as spent fuel rods.

10.   Shipments of moderately contaminated waste, such as the type being stored at Morsleben, has continued.