Preparations are underway to send the first of four shipments of hazardous chemical waste from Sydney to Denmark this month.
A deal between Australia and the Danish government means the 3,000-tonne shipment of waste will be disposed of at an incineration site in the south of Denmark.
In total, 16,000 tonnes of high-risk waste, or hexachlorobenzene, will be shipped from the Orica site at Botany in Sydney.
The waste was created by the production of plastics and solvents.
It is the chemical material dug up from the old Orica site and the contaminated packaging and protective gear that must be destroyed safely.

Illegal dumping across from Hauppauge Landfill stirred concerns of Suffolk County Police.

Suffolk County Police received a call that multiple drums filled with an unknown substance were found in the woods off Millmay Avenue, across from Hauppauge Landfill at approximately 11 a.m today.

Police said multiple small drums of oil were found abandoned in the woods. An officer estimated less than a gallon had spilled, contaminating soil in the area.

An Army bomb disposal unit today carried out a controlled explosion on an unstable chemical at a laboratory in the Royal College of Surgeons in Dublin.

Authorities at the college on St Stephen's Green contacted the emergency services shortly before 12.30pm after an internal audit of the lab found the chemical had degraded to a dangerous state.

Following an examination of the chemical by the bomb disposal team, the chemical was deemed unsafe to transport and was subsequently made safe through a controlled explosion on nearby waste ground.

The offending material is understood to have been 30g of picric acid, a potentially explosive substance which is commonly used by laboratories in the analysis of metals and ores.

When the substance goes beyond a certain timeframe, it can become dangerous to transport.

(TULSA)- Hazmat crews were called to the QuikTrip at 47th and Yale Ave. Saturday morning for a meth lab in a trash can.
An employee called authorities after noticing some unusual items.
Police say there were bottles, hoses abd other items that tested positive for a meth lab.
Crews cleaned up the scene and no one was injured.