Denmark will allow Australia to ship thousands of tonnes of toxic waste to be disposed of since it does not have the technology to carry out the work, officials said.Australia does not have the proper technology to deal with the 10,000 tonnes of HCB, or hexachlorobenzene, which is produced through the manufacturing of chemical products and explosives.
Danish environment minister Karen Ellemann said her country had to act because of treaty obligations. The shipment and treatment of the waste will also result in a major contract for a Danish company.
Denmark "has the obligation to help other countries when they are confronted to an unsolvable problem," she said in a statement.
Ellemann said it was "very problematic to transport dangerous waste from one area of the globe to another."
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Chemical stockpile to be sent overseas
A DANGEROUS chemical stockpile in the Sydney electorate of Environment Minister Peter Garrett will be shipped overseas after Danish authorities agreed to help dispose of the waste.
For decades, the mining, explosives and chemical company Orica has stored more than 60,000 drums of the now-banned fungicide hexachlorobenzene (HCB) at an industrial site in the Sydney suburb of Botany.
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