The Wire

Chemicals giant Orica has been left to take out its own trash after regional politicians in Germany refused to honour an agreement to accept and dispose of almost 16,000 tonnes of toxic waste Accumulating for more than two decades, the waste now makes that the world’s largets stockpile of HCB. Failure of the controversial plan to ship the waste across oceans,plan means it will stay stored in some 60,000 barrels in Sydney’s Botany.