The MV Ruby vessel is back in Great Yarmouth after discharging material off the Norfolk coast.
A ship has dumped about 300 tonnes of potentially explosive cargo into the North Sea, the BBC has learned.
It added the material was discharged into UK territorial waters at a location "that offered the lowest environmental impacts".Steve Huntley/BBC "Contamination of ammonium nitrate is generally expected to increase the likelihood of an explosion if that ammonium nitrate is subject to a severe fire and/or an intense shock" it said.
"I see this a massive loss to our local community because we're dumping pollution into our local environment," he said.
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