1.   The waste was sent by rail to a disposal site in Utah.

2.   Britain has proposed that the practise of sending waste to neighbouring countries be banned from within the EC.

3.   Idaho lawmakers stepped up efforts to pass a bill sending nuclear waste to Nevada.

4.   In three inspections that October day, the Coast Guard had seen oil in pipes and elsewhere indicating that oily waste had been sent directly overboard.

5.   Mexican plants operating near the border are required to send wastes back to the country where the raw materials for manufacturing originated.

6.   Prolonged exposure is dangerous, but the larger threat is that a natural disaster could send the waste into the river.

7.   The amendment would limit the states sending waste to the site to Texas, Maine and Vermont.

8.   The city, which owns the landfill, wants to close it and do the modern thing, which is to send the waste to a newly built incinerator.

9.   Energy-poor Japan has aggressively pursued plutonium as an energy source by sending nuclear waste to Europe for reprocessing into plutonium and building fast breeder reactors in Japan.

10.   For waste producers and handlers, however, sending the waste overseas is an even safer option.