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The Albanian government has been under scrutiny after failing to take sufficient action to address a toxic waste crisis.
According to reporting from the Associated Press, a ship had been flagged for carrying containers of toxic materials. The government has been slow to fully solve the problem.
Environmental advocates have been calling out this hazardous situation.
A ship carrying a suspected 2,100 tons of highly toxic material was flagged by the Basel Action Network, based in Seattle, last August.
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According to the AP, a whistleblower notified BAN about the hazardous waste containers, which are believed to contain "toxic dust from pollution control filters from the steel industry."
Prosecutors in Albania have seen to the moving of the cargo from its port of arrival at Durres to Porto Romano, about four miles away, "saying they would ask government institutions to conduct lab tests." But with little further action taken in the immediate aftermath, environmental groups and key stakeholders are calling out the government for its lack of urgency.
"BAN and the local group Milieukontakt Albania [in early March] criticized 'the complete silence from the government and the apparent lack of any progress on the case from the government...
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