Not enough for the Basel Action Network, a Seattle group monitoring the toxic waste trade, which alleges that companies like ReCellular are shifting toxic waste to nations that aren't equipped to deal with its eventual disposal.

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Other reports to be cut include monitoring the use of waste tyres, and a monthly check on the effects of an earthquake 20 years ago.

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Low cost improvements can include replacing incandescent lights with CFL or LED alternatives, master switches to make it easier to switch off appliances at night, energy monitoring to make it easier to identify waste, draft proofing, and using plants or shade-cloth to keep the summer sun off your home.

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And it points out that other methods of waste disposal, like putting it in landfills, can pose health risks, and it urges more frequent monitoring of dioxins from incinerators.

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It is intended to both increase the efficiency and effectiveness of grant programs by eliminating unnecessary and duplicative requirements and strengthen the oversight of grant dollars by focusing on areas such as eligibility, monitoring of sub-recipients, adequate reporting, and other areas that are potential indices of waste, fraud or abuse.

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It will cover the monitoring of the Tyddyn Whisgin site for two years to determine the best way of dealing with the waste, amid concern that moving the waste could cause more environmental harm.

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Prior to my present position, I was Director of the New Mexico State University Carlsbad Environmental Monitoring and Research Center, the independent and academic monitoring facility for the Department of Energy WIPP, a little-known deep geologic nuclear repository for bomb waste.

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