Military PCB dumping poisoned Saipan residents who unknowingly reused the waste.

Evidence

On Saipan in the 1960s, U.S. troops dumped used radar equipment containing PCBs in the village of Tanapag. Never informed about the danger, local residents transformed radar parts into boundary markers, windbreaks, rooftop decorations, and even cemetery headstones. After finally telling the government of Saipan about the materials in 1988, the Pentagon had to ship away more than a million tons of contaminated soil for treatment on the mainland. — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 419

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: Material that pairs with garbage/waste themes and echoes the harm-to-locals thread across chapters; a specific instance of environmental harm USA neglect caused, relevant to the book’s overall thesis.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 419
• XREF: connects to: Accidental PCB rice-oil poisonings killed infants and caused lifelong disorders — Winona LaDuke, All Our Relations: Native Struggles for…, 105