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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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Hazardous waste - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A hazardous waste is waste that poses substantial or potential threats to public health or the environment and generally exhibits one or more of these characteristics: • carcinogenic •ignitable (i.e...
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Toxic asset - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
" Toxic asset " is a non-technical term for certain financial assets whose value has fallen significantly and for which there is no longer a functioning market, so that they cannot be reasonably sol...
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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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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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