1. At one point, the fire brigade brought in their chemical incident unit to deal with the bags, thought to be hazardous asbestos waste. 2. But nothing is reducing the expense of storing hazardous low-level waste. 3. Clean-up operations to contain the spillage of hazardous chemical wastes have begun. 4. Hazardous medical wastes are required to be placed in special red bags that carry a warning and disposed of in special landfills or by incineration. 5. While businesses must dispose of their own hazardous industrial wastes, it is municipal governments that must deal with their ordinary trash, just like garbage from private homes. 6. Greenpeace says many companies in industrialized countries find it expensive to process hazardous metal wastes because of strict local laws. 7. The flagship of the environmental group Greenpeace, the Rainbow Warrior, arrived in St. Thomas yesterday to publicize the dangers of shipping hazardous nuclear waste. 8. The flagship of the environmental group Greenpeace, the Rainbow Warrior, arrived in St. Thomas Sunday to publicize the dangers of shipping hazardous nuclear waste. 9. Dozens of barrels of hazardous industrial waste have been found in mountains northeast of Beirut in the past month, newspapers reported here Saturday. 10. The hazardous flammable waste was to be unloaded on the Norwegian island of Langoeya in the Oslo fjord. |
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