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Reports on the discovery that British pollution inspectors have relaxed safety standards for some toxic emisssions. Ability of cement manufacturers to burn chemical wastes as fuel in their kilns; Increase in the safety limits of toxic metals; Cement manufacturers' defense of their use of chemical wastes as fuel.

Reports that Nigerian entrepreneurs are facing the death penalty for inviting European companies to ship toxic waste to Nigeria disguised as edible oil. Criticism of the European Community's waste policy that promotes such business; Letters that have been received by prospective clients; Criticism by Greenpeace over the release of these letters.

Praises a panel, set up by the Australian government, for its recommendations on what the country should do with its toxic waste. Panel rejected the incinerator plan favored by the government; Panel would like to see a suite of smaller technologies that between them could eliminate most of the waste; How the panel went about gathering its information.

Focuses on a report by the Independent Panel on Intractable Wastes set up by the Australian government that considered what to do with Australia's toxic waste. Recommends that Australia should develop a range of technologies that could be tailored to particular properties and characteristics of the waste; Proposal to ban all exports of toxic wastes from Australia while these technologies are being developed is controversial; Under what conditions wastes could be exported.