How to Use toxic waste in a Sentence

toxic waste

noun

• In 1980, Congress passed legislation setting up a funding mechanism to clean up toxic waste sites.
  — Mike Hendricks, Kansas City Star, 14 June 2024
• Too much sugar in the bloodstream, for too long, causes toxic waste to build in the brain, contributing to the death of brain cells.
  — Alexandra Moe, The New Republic, 2 Mar. 2023
• End of carousel The Strip is becoming a toxic waste pit of armaments and debris, experts warn.
  — William Booth, Washington Post, 7 Nov. 2023
• All across India, there are reports of rivers foaming with toxic waste or lakes catching fire.
  — Oliver Franklin-Wallis, WIRED, 30 Nov. 2023
• Extraction near a mountain stream called Soda Butte Creek left a legacy of toxic waste that leached into the park for decades.
  — Dino Grandoni, Anchorage Daily News, 12 May 2023
• Fill it up with all the residual toxic waste from the friendship and every good and beautiful feeling, too.
  — Elaine Welteroth, Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2023
• The ravages of toxic waste and the horrific aftermath of atomic war are never seen.
  — Jessica Ferri, Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2023
• About 6,000 people are staying in hotels and vacation rentals while waiting for the toxic waste left by the fire to be cleaned up and rebuilding to begin.
  — Byaudrey McAvoy, Fortune, 1 Sep. 2023
• For years, the department has been cleaning up toxic waste on-site and in the surrounding neighborhoods, digging up soil littered with lead.
  — Robert Lewis, AZCentral.com, 1 Mar. 2023
• The legislation’s name references the 1980 federal Superfund law that forces polluters to pay for the cleanup of toxic waste sites.
  — Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 29 Apr. 2024
• After robbing the company, Winston falls into toxic waste and aims to right society’s wrongs as the Toxic Avenger.
  — Ryan Gajewski, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 Sep. 2023
• In early scenes, the divers earn their living fetching oysters off the ocean floor — or at least these did until factories started dumping toxic waste into the waters.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 11 Aug. 2023
• Love Canal was one of the nation’s worst toxic waste catastrophes and now — 45 years later — the site for a new, and sometimes unknowing, generation of homesteaders.
  — Jesse McKinley Lauren Petracca, New York Times, 12 June 2023
• However, studies later found that smoke produced from burning toxic waste was full of hazardous chemicals that could get into the ocean.
  — Minnah Arshad, USA TODAY, 23 Aug. 2023
• Then, news emerged that Tesla was being sued by 25 different counties in California for years of dumping toxic waste.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 2 Feb. 2024
• Every year millions of tons of toxic waste are shipped from advanced industrial countries to low-income nations in Africa, Asia and Latin America.
  — James K. Boyce, Scientific American, 1 Nov. 2018
• Processing nickel generates toxic waste, which must be disposed of in special structures in the ocean or underground.
  — Keith Bradsher, New York Times, 16 May 2023
• In 2022, the scrapyard was sued by the state of New York for allegedly violating environmental laws around pollution and toxic waste.
  — Jessica Sager, Peoplemag, 25 Oct. 2023
• Getting permits and financing for work on former industrial sites can be tricky because of risks like leftover toxic waste.
  — Catrin Einhorn, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2024
• More than half of people of color and discriminated communities in the U.S. will live near a toxic waste dump or a pollutant industry.
  — Lauren J. Young, Scientific American, 7 June 2023
• Ghee supposedly acts as a scavenger, drawing out toxic waste matter (known as ama) and pushing it into the intestinal tract for elimination.
  — Jane Alexander, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 Feb. 2024
• Questions about the disposal of toxic waste from the February 3 derailment have added to the controversy surrounding the crash that has also left residents of the town worried about potential long-term health effects.
  — Nouran Salahieh, CNN, 27 Feb. 2023
• Climate change could cause this nuclear waste to enter the environment, as warming temperatures melt ice sheets that contain radioactive liquid and raise sea levels that could pollute food and water sources with toxic waste, per the study.
  — Tara Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Mar. 2024
• In truth, incineration merely transforms our waste issues into more complex toxic waste problems, such as toxic ash.
  — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 9 Feb. 2024
• Efforts to find a final home for hundreds of containers of toxic waste have faced fierce resistance from local groups and officials, including Mr. Soeder, the Bavarian governor.
  — Frank Jordans, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Apr. 2023
• The facility has denied any wrongdoing and continued to operate, and is now receiving toxic waste from last month’s Norfolk Southern train derailment in East Palestine, 20 miles away.
  — Elizabeth Chuck, NBC News, 1 Mar. 2023
• Environmental officials are readying plans to search out and remediate any toxic waste spreading in soil and groundwater.
  — Scott Dance, Washington Post, 17 Feb. 2023
• One summer, Jack worked at a toxic waste removal company as an environmental technician, cleaning up hazardous waste, oil tanks and spills in Massachusetts.
  — Alex Gurley, Peoplemag, 8 Nov. 2023
• Based on their own accounts, the Yanomami population has been decimated by the toxic waste from mining activities and viruses like malaria that penetrate their once untainted domain.
  — Carlos Aguilar, Variety, 19 May 2024
• Perhaps the only realistic concern is that existing recycling technologies rely on nitric acid and can produce some toxic waste.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 4 June 2024

Last Updated: 7 Sep 2024