Environment Minister Amedi Camara said that nearly all of the plastic package waste is not "collected and is found in the natural environment - land and sea - where they are sometimes ingested by marine species and livestock, causing their death".

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He said the package would waste money on an unnecessary missile system and objected to provisions that would expel service members found to have the AIDS virus and ban abortions in U.S. military hospitals overseas.

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And anyway, most of that money went to establishing an excellent technical and scientific foundation for any deep geologic disposal site anywhere, especially for how to package and transport highly radioactive waste to wherever it will go.

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