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Tunisia cracks down with arrests in Italy hazardous waste scandal
Amid the scandal, Prime Minister Hichem Mechichi sacked the environment minister, Mustapha Aroui, while twelve were taken into custody.Tunisia arrested a dozen people including its environment minister on Monday in a scandal over hundreds of containers of household waste shipped from Italy to the North African country. The 282 containers were seized this summer by Tunisian customs officials in the Mediterranean port city of Sousse. They were declared to be carrying plastic scraps for industrial recycling – but were instead filled with mixed, putrid household waste, which is barred from import under Tunisian law. The case shines a spotlight on the murky global trade in waste, which has grown

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