The EU, the U.S., Brazil and India have all accused Chinese exporters of "dumping" materials on local markets, which can lower prices and put local competition out of business.
"The reality is that you often have no idea where a company may have dumped material".
The dumped material contained a toxic mixture of petroleum distillates, hydrogen sulfide, mercaptans, phenolic compounds, and sodium hydroxide.
Also unlike real journalists, WikiLeaks dumped material into the public domain without any effort independently to verify its factuality or give named individuals an opportunity to comment.
If operations at the Oak Ridge Reservation dumped material that floats or dissolves in water, the officials say, it would by now have flowed downstream over the dam.
So far they have revealed little about themselves, posting brief notes and links on Pastebin – a site favoured by hackers to "dump" material – writing in garbled English that suggests it is not their first language.
During the first decades after the dumping, about half of the originally dumped material was already spread over the surrounding area as a result of sediment dynamics and re-suspension processes.
The site is located within an area characterized by a discontinuous deposition of fine sediments, but net sedimentation rate of about 3 mm/y led ultimately to a gradual coverage of the dumped material.
