How to Use toxic waste in a Sentence

toxic waste

noun
  • There’s toxic waste in the water.
    — Jenny Staletovich, Miami Herald, 10 Mar. 2026
  • These small, toxic waste items pollute city streets, beaches and waterways.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 16 Aug. 2025
  • Business owners had to clean up the charred debris and toxic waste on their properties.
    — Roger Vincent, Los Angeles Times, 9 Jan. 2026
  • Lead and mercury are considered toxic waste.
    — Kurt Snibbe, Oc Register, 29 May 2026
  • The end result also produces toxic waste, some of which is radioactive.
    — Chris Isidore, CNN Money, 11 Feb. 2026
  • America’s rivers were turned into lifeless toxic waste dumps and open sewers.
    — Chadd Scott, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2025
  • Melvin is tormented by a quartet of bullies and ends up falling out of a second-story window into a drum of toxic waste.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, 25 Aug. 2025
  • Rare earths are mined by digging up rock or washing chemicals through soil to extract the minerals, creating toxic waste.
    — Anton L. Delgado, Los Angeles Times, 29 Apr. 2026
  • The Superfund program to clean up toxic waste dumps was new and one of EPA’s largest programs at the time.
    — Barbara Kates-Garnick, The Conversation, 26 Aug. 2025
  • But Nessa and Cefin are both killed – directly or indirectly – because of the toxic waste.
    — K.j. Yossman, Variety, 27 Feb. 2026
  • Corporate characteristics are also key factors in how toxic waste is handled and disposed of.
    — Jennifer Brodmann, The Conversation, 14 Oct. 2025
  • The binding ruling gave Italy two years to set up a database about the toxic waste and verified health risks associated with living there.
    — ABC News, 23 May 2026
  • When the home’s white former tenants vacate, Jimmie moves out of his friend’s apartment in a low-income neighborhood that’s built on toxic waste and begins squatting.
    — Taryn Finley, Refinery29, 7 Nov. 2025
  • But the new reports issued by the IG’s remaining staff still lay out the risks posed by a warming planet to the nation’s most dangerous toxic waste sites.
    — ABC News, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Mining generates large quantities of toxic waste and wastewater containing heavy metals, acids and radioactive residues.
    — Abraham Nunbogu, Fortune, 29 Apr. 2026
  • Factories were allowed to dump so much toxic waste that the Cuyahoga River in Cleveland would regularly catch fire.
    — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 26 Apr. 2026
  • That show was based on the true story of the Corby poisonings, in which pregnant women inhaled toxic waste from a closed steel mill in England, leading to severe birth defects.
    — Joe Otterson, Variety, 20 May 2026
  • But almost from its start, industry has targeted the program, whose assessments can trigger toxic waste cleanups and expensive regulatory changes.
    — Sharon Lerner, ProPublica, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Scientists said that any dam failure could send toxic waste rapidly into the river, threatening Indigenous and riverine communities as well as the ecosystem.
    — ABC News, 18 May 2026
  • Conventional rare earth recycling is energy-intensive and generates toxic waste.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 29 Sep. 2025
  • This innovative approach promises to cut down on the toxic waste associated with gold extraction and a new approach to recovering high-purity gold from various sources.
    — Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Vermont became the first state to enact a climate superfund law, modeled on the federal superfund law that taxed petroleum and chemical companies to pay to clean up sites polluted by toxic waste.
    — ABC News, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Advertisement Extreme flooding can also submerge Superfund toxic waste dumps.
    — Cynthia Palmer, Time, 9 Dec. 2025
  • The research underscores that hazardous sites—ranging from sewage and toxic waste facilities to oil and gas operations—are increasingly vulnerable to coastal flooding as sea levels rise.
    — Hollie Silverman, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Nov. 2025
  • The funeral home building was demolished in 2024 after the EPA condemned it, classifying it as a toxic waste site.
    — Brian Sherrod, CBS News, 24 Apr. 2026
  • The pilot study examining the potential human health effects of this toxic waste was conducted in 2023 and published in 2025.
    — CBS News, 12 June 2026
  • Asbille's character reportedly died of cancer, which is believed to be connected to a toxic waste dump located near a mine on the Broken Rock Reservation.
    — Haadiza Ogwude, Cincinnati Enquirer, 8 Mar. 2026
  • With Commoner’s approach, technological problems such as toxic waste and nuclear radiation, would be solved through cleanups and improved processes.
    — The Conversation, 16 Mar. 2026
  • The film is a cinematic expansion of my reporting on the legacy of DDT and toxic waste dumping off the coast of Southern California.
    — Rosanna Xia, Los Angeles Times, 11 June 2026
  • Clean energy from toxic waste Bio-tar – the thick liquid by-product produced when heating biomass and organic matter – has long been viewed as toxic to the environment and an unavoidable cost of renewable energy production.
    — The Week Uk, TheWeek, 30 Dec. 2025

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