Toxic Waste: A waste that can produce injury if inhaled, swallowed, or absorbed through the skin.
Toxicant: A harmful substance or agent that may injure an exposed organism.
Toxic Waste in Alaska: Pollution and Cancer on The Last Frontier
Thousands of industrial and military toxic waste dumps put Alaska residents and wildlife at risk of serious health effects, ...
toxic waste - garbage or waste that can injure, poison, or harm living things, and is sometimes life-threatening.
toxification - poisoning.
toxic waste: Toxic waste is trash that can harm or kill living things, including people. Often chemicals, it can be also medical waste.
treaty: A treaty is a signed agreement between two or more countries.
Environmental damage from hydroelectric, mining, energy and forestry projects, chemical pollution from industry, nuclear energy and weapons testing, toxic waste mismanagement, depletion of the ozone layer and global warming, ...
It may be through factories being located on it and, at some stage, factory wastes either draining from the factory area into the soil, or toxic wastes being buried around the factory site.
However, nuclear reactors generate less than one-millionth the toxic waste (measured by net biological effect) per watt, when wastes of both power generation facilities are properly handled.
An incinerator that operates at extremely high temperatures; treats highly toxic wastes that do not burn easily.
Plasmide ...
Plasma-Arc Reactor: An incinerator that operates at extremely high temperatures; treats highly toxic wastes that do not burn easily.
Designer Bugs- Popular term for microbes developed through biotechnology that can degrade specific toxic chemicals at their source in toxic waste dumps or in ground water.
A beluga whale accumulates so much PCB from eating PCB-contaminated fish, its corpse must be treated as toxic waste. Circa 1979, I worked at BC Hydro Research labs. One project was developing a way to destroy stocks of unwanted PCBs.
Popular term for microbes developed through biotechnology that can degrade specific toxic chemicals at their source in toxic waste dumps or in groundwater.
Desorption
The release of chemicals attached to solid surfaces. Antonym - Sorption.
Environmentalists claim that residue ash produced by mass burn facilities can sometimes exceed heavy metal limits and must therefore be classified as toxic waste.
 See also: Toxic, Waste, Environment, Pollution, Environmental
  
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