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Toxic waste - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Toxic waste is waste material that can cause death or injury to living creatures. It can be spread quite easily and contaminate lakes and rivers. The term is often used interchangeably with “hazardou...
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toxic waste is waste material, often in chemical form, that can cause death or injury to living creatures. It usually is the product of industry or commerce, but comes also from residential use, agriculture, the military, medical facilities, radioactive sources, and light industry, such as dry cleaning establishments.
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When they are no longer useful, they are disposed of as waste. Toxic wastes may contain organic chemicals (e.g. phenol or TNT), inorganic chemicals (e.g. phosphates and sulfides), heavy metals (e.g. lead or mercury), or mixtures of both.
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Such storage containers often corrode and leak their contents, polluting the land and the water supply, prompting authorities to pass protective acts, which assigned broad financial responsibility for toxic waste cleanups. ... Toxic waste recycling station...
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Because the industrial grade fluosilicic acid is a toxic waste by-product recovered from chimney pollution scrubbers ("scrubber liquor"), the volume of contaminants is profoundly influenced by the method of manufacture and the quality of raw materials used.
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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has put 1,290 of these waste sites on the National Priority List. Sometimes toxins stored at some of these sites leak out of their containers and make their ... Although currently used the least, bioremediation may be the most economical and most efficient way to reduce toxic waste...
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12 June 2009 (Seattle, WA.) - The toxic waste watchdog organization, the Basel Action Network (BAN), is warning consumers to be extremely careful about where they take their old TVs for recycling following the nationwide conversion from analog-to-digital broadcasting.
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