Peace Corps Online writes "BBC reports that Brazilian council are rough the return of more than 1,400 tons of hazardous British waste found in about 90 shipping containers on three Brazilian docks. The waste, which includes syringes, condoms, and bags of blood, has been identified as being of UK origin from the names of British supermarkets and newspapers among the rubbish. Reports in the UK media say the waste was sent from Felixstowe in eastern England to the port of Santos, near Sao Paulo, and two other ports in the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul. The British authority has launched an fishing expedition into how and why the waste was sent to Brazil and the British Embassy in Brazil has said in a aside that it was investigating and would 'not hesitate to act' if it was found that a UK company had violated the Basel convocation on the operation of hazardous waste. Meanwhile Brazil is tough the direct return of the rubbish to the UK. 'We will ask for the repatriation of this garbage,' says Roberto Messias, head of the Brazilian purlieus agency. 'Clearly, Brazil is not a big rubbish dump of the world.'" Two UK companies named by Brazil as suspected exporters of the waste are owned by a Brazilian, based in the UK, who says that whatever that was in the containers other than the expected recyclable plastic is a problem to take up with his suppliers.

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