toxic waste
noun
: unwanted chemicals that are the result of manufacturing or industry and that are poisonous to living things
The company was fined for dumping toxic waste into the river.
toxic waste dumps/sites
Toxic wastes were detected in the soil samples.
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This is exceptionally high during inclement weather or other natural disasters that could slice open the toxic waste sites and spread contaminants into the neighborhoods.
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Ganes Kesari, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2024
Beyond the mine stacks, the Tampa Bay area is also home to old toxic waste sites that are considered among the worst in the nation.
—Shawn Tully, Fortune, 9 Oct. 2024
Organisms known as extremophiles survive in caves stretching thousands of feet into the Earth’s crust, in deserts that go decades without rain, under high pressures kilometers deep in the sea, in toxic waste dumps that are entirely unnatural and inconceivably inhospitable.
—quantamagazine.org, 26 Sep. 2024
Since mining and processing rare earth elements produces high volumes of toxic waste, China’s lax environmental regulations have helped it to dominate the global trade in these metals.
—Vasabjit Banerjee, Foreign Affairs, 11 Oct. 2022
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Ganes Kesari, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2024
Beyond the mine stacks, the Tampa Bay area is also home to old toxic waste sites that are considered among the worst in the nation.
—Shawn Tully, Fortune, 9 Oct. 2024
Organisms known as extremophiles survive in caves stretching thousands of feet into the Earth’s crust, in deserts that go decades without rain, under high pressures kilometers deep in the sea, in toxic waste dumps that are entirely unnatural and inconceivably inhospitable.
—quantamagazine.org, 26 Sep. 2024
Since mining and processing rare earth elements produces high volumes of toxic waste, China’s lax environmental regulations have helped it to dominate the global trade in these metals.
—Vasabjit Banerjee, Foreign Affairs, 11 Oct. 2022
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“Toxic waste.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/toxic%20waste. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.
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