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Eleven activists entered chemical company Orica's Botany Bay plant to label and lock down highly toxic and carcinogenic waste - hexachlorobenzene (HCB) - destined for Denmark.

Orica is responsible for at least 16,000 tonnes of the banned carcinogen HCB. Instead of dealing with the waste itself, Orica is proposing to transport a total of 6,100 tonnes of HCB, in multiple shipments, to Nyborg in Denmark for incineration. It has no accepted plan for the remaining 10,000 tonnes. Other toxic chlorinated pollutants have leeched from the Botany Bay site, poisoning groundwater for thousands of Sydney residents.

The shipment is in contravention of both international and domestic law. Under the UN Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal, HCB waste can only be exported to another OECD country under the exceptional circumstance where there is no technology available in-country to treat and destroy the waste.