industrial waste
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According to environmental campaigners, industrial waste is often shipped by Western countries to be processed in Asia and Africa, a global trade they estimate may be worth up to $82 billion a year.
From Barron's ● Feb. 4, 2026
Some of the rubbish will have to be dug up and removed because the disused quarry is not an appropriate place to store industrial waste.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2025
For decades, the Anacostia was treated as a municipal dumping ground for industrial waste, storm sewers and trash.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 5, 2024
For most of the 20th century, the former Stauffer Chemical Co. disposed of thousands of tons of industrial waste near its factory grounds along Richmond’s southeast shoreline.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 2024
I have never known anyone who would even venture to stick his toe in its polluted brown waters, which seethe with sewage, industrial waste, and deadly insecticides.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
