{"id":58150,"date":"2020-01-11T10:02:19","date_gmt":"2020-01-11T02:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=58150"},"modified":"2020-01-11T10:02:21","modified_gmt":"2020-01-11T02:02:21","slug":"liberia-sends-hazardous-waste-back-to-greece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=58150","title":{"rendered":"Liberia sends &#8216;hazardous waste&#8217; back to Greece"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/africa\/Liberia-sends-hazardous-waste-back-to-Greece-834574?gallery=1\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanaweb.com\/imagelib\/pics\/606\/60687505.295.jpg\" alt=\"Plastic waste\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><em>Plastic waste<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MONROVIA, Jan 11 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Liberian authorities say they are returning to Greece four shipping containers stuffed with tonnes of hazardous polyethylene waste bags that had been smuggled into Liberia &#8220;under the pretext of being recyclable materials&#8221;.<br><br>Anti-smuggling officers raised the alarm at the port of Monrovia when containers arrived &#8220;oozing some odour&#8221;, says Environment Protect Agency (EPA) head Nathaniel Blama, and investigation followed.<br><br>After analysis, the EPA said this particular type of plastic bags were banned from being recycled or re-used in Greece. It believes the bags were sold to a local waste dealer who in turn shipped them to Liberia.<br><br>Liberia\u2019s 350-mile coastline is largely underpatrolled and international fishing vessels often operate in its waters illegally. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<strong>:<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plastic waste MONROVIA, Jan 11 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Liberian authorities say they are returning to Greece four shipping containers stuffed with tonnes of hazardous polyethylene waste bags that had been smuggled into Liberia &#8220;under the pretext of being recyclable materials&#8221;. Anti-smuggling officers raised the alarm at the port of Monrovia when containers arrived &#8220;oozing some odour&#8221;, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213,209],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58150"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}