POPs IN AFRICA HAZARDOUS WASTE TRADE 1980 - 2000 ... - Arte

69 Die Tageszeitung, Berlin, (AFP quoting the Sunday Times) January 15,1990
Daily Champion, Lagos, Nigeria, February 19,1990
70 Relevant documents on file with Greenpeace Germany
Scheme: Bruna Americana I
Date: 1990
Type of Waste: Unknown, toxic industrial waste
Origin: Netherlands
Exporter: Unknown
Pretext/Fate: Unknown
Status: Unknown
The freighter Bruna Americana under the flag of Cyprus was
denied entry to Egyptian ports and next tried the port of
Mombasa, Kenya and Nigerian ports. On board there were
20,000 tonnes of toxic waste which the ship had taken on in the
Netherlands. 69
Note: Bruna Americana II and III in the Kenya and Nigeria
Sections of this report
Scheme: Taurus pesticides
Date: March, 1992
Type of Waste: Expired pesticides
Source: Germany
Exporter: Taurus Umweltschutz
Pretext/fate: Further use ?
Status: Stopped
In March, 1992, Greenpeace detected and blocked a warehouse
full of partly rotten barrels containing pesticides from old East
German production. In total there were 180 tonnes, among them
mercury and highly chlorinated substances. These pesticides
were no longer in use in Germany, some were banned, most of
them were expired and many barrels were rusting and leaking.
They had been hidden by the broker company Taurus
Umweltschutz to be exported “to Egypt or maybe Tunisia”,
Taurus manager Ulrich Frommherz said. Taurus had pocketed
the disposal fees and, by exporting the waste pesticides, had
hoped to get around the disposal costs. 70
The authorities seized the barrels and had them incinerated.
More on Taurus: see next scheme.
Scheme: Metallgesellschaft Frankfurt
Date: 1992
Type of Waste: Contaminated plastics
Source: Germany
Exporter: Metallgesellschaft Frankfurt
Pretext/Fate: Recycling, incineration of residues
Status: Actual / rejected
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