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

This discovery points toward a circular system in which fluorine can be recovered from industrial waste instead of being lost through disposal.

From Science Daily • Nov. 27, 2025

Researchers have found that pollutants in the Tijuana River, which carries raw sewage and industrial waste from Tijuana, are also turning up in the air along the coast near the U.S.-Mexico border.

From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2025

Once revered as sacred, the river now ranks among the world's most polluted, overwhelmed by industrial waste, sewage, and agricultural run-off.

From BBC • Feb. 21, 2025

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