HAZARDOUS WASTE

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union Council of Ministers has decided to expand its list of chemicals formally labelled as hazardous wastes, by including waste containing dangerous chlorophylls and dangerous silicon. These will now be subject to tight controls on their disposal. Ministers made the same decision about construction materials containing asbestos; here they also agreed an EU export ban, starting next January 1.



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