21.   Formosa Plastics agreed to ship the waste out of the country despite disputes over just how toxic it was.

22.   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.

23.   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.

24.   Germany ships nuclear waste to those countries for reprocessing.

25.   Greenpeace said the waste was shipped by two German companies that wanted to avoid disposal costs at home.

26.   Greenpeace, the environmental group, says a French company plans to ship atomic waste from plutonium production to Japan for use in nuclear reactors there.

27.   Instead, they ship the waste to poor countries such as India where enforcement of existing laws is lax.

28.   It said the credibility of those shipping the waste should be checked and all materials to be imported clearly explained in the contract.

29.   Last month, Germans were shocked when federal Environment Minister Angelika Merkel reported that for years companies had been shipping nuclear waste in containers that leaked radiation.

30.   Lee did not say when an agreement on disposal would be reached, or where the waste would be shipped.