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Monsanto alleged to have dumped toxic waste in UK

 


Evidence has emerged that the Monsanto chemical company paid contractors to dump thousands of tonnes of highly toxic waste in British landfill sites, knowing that their chemicals were liable to contaminate wildlife and people.

According to the Environment agency it could cost up to £100m to clean up a site in south Wales that has been called "one of the most contaminated" in the country.

A previously unseen government report read shows that 67 chemicals, including Agent Orange derivatives, dioxins and PCBs which could have been made only by Monsanto, are leaking from an unlined porous quarry tip that may not have been authorised to take chemical wastes. The Brofiscin quarry on the edge of the village of Groesfaen, near Cardiff is the subject of investigation under the Contaminated Land provisions and the Environment Agency Wales is thought to have spent over £800,000 on investigations.

Monsanto stopped producing PCBs in the US in 1971, but the UK government, which knew of the dangers of PCBs in the environment in the 1960s, allowed their production in Wales until 1977.

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