Toxic waste scandal from Italy not closed : Lebanese General State Prosecutor Adnane Addoum told Greenpeace that the issue of imported toxic waste from Italy in 1997 is not closed. During a meeting with Greenpeace Mediterranean campaigners Ghassan Geara and Fouad Hamdan in the Justice Palace in Beirut, Addoum said that he was ready to ask Italian embassy officials to return toxic waste and to decontaminate polluted sites.