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
  • Banksy has added a sinking oil liner and two figures lugging a barrel of toxic waste.
    — CBS News, 18 Feb. 2025
  • 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
  • All across India, there are reports of rivers foaming with toxic waste or lakes catching fire.
    — Oliver Franklin-Wallis, WIRED, 30 Nov. 2023
  • 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
  • Too much sugar in the bloodstream, for too long, causes toxic waste to build in the brain, contributing to the death of brain cells.
    — Alexandra Moe, The New Republic, 2 Mar. 2023
  • This includes the clearance of toxic waste products that accumulate in the brain.
    — Tom Rogers, Newsweek, 25 Nov. 2024
  • Fill it up with all the residual toxic waste from the friendship and every good and beautiful feeling, too.
    — Elaine Welteroth, Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2023
  • The ravages of toxic waste and the horrific aftermath of atomic war are never seen.
    — Jessica Ferri, Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2023
  • Banksy removed one of the servants and added a sinking oil tanker and two figures in hazmat suits hauling a barrel of toxic waste.
    — David Matthews, New York Daily News, 18 Feb. 2025
  • In Banksy’s version, the maid is replaced by two men wearing hazmat suits and pushing a barrel of toxic waste.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Feb. 2025
  • Chapman, who says her family has no history of the condition, blames toxic waste.
    — Johnny Dodd, Peoplemag, 15 Aug. 2024
  • 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
  • But this toxic waste may also be a treasure trove of the rare earth elements needed to propel the world toward clean energy.
    — Andrew Torgan, CNN, 8 Dec. 2024
  • End of carousel The Strip is becoming a toxic waste pit of armaments and debris, experts warn.
    — William Booth, Washington Post, 7 Nov. 2023
  • 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 closure left Corby with a high unemployment rate and toxic waste that the local council was in charge of cleaning up.
    — Lynsey Eidell, People.com, 28 Feb. 2025
  • Beyond the mine stacks, the Tampa Bay area is also home to old toxic waste sites that are considered among the worst in the nation.
    — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 9 Oct. 2024
  • For years, the department has been cleaning up toxic waste on-site and in the surrounding neighborhoods, digging up soil littered with lead.
    — Robert Lewis, AZCentral.com, 1 Mar. 2023
  • 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
  • Getting permits and financing for work on former industrial sites can be tricky because of risks like leftover toxic waste.
    — Catrin Einhorn, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2024
  • However, studies later found that smoke produced from burning toxic waste was full of hazardous chemicals that could get into the ocean.
    — Minnah Arshad, USA TODAY, 23 Aug. 2023
  • Construction is time consuming, stressful and expensive in normal times, let alone in a disaster zone with toxic waste.
    — Andrew Khouri, Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 2025
  • Processing rare earths often involves the use of solvents, which can produce toxic waste that pollutes the soil, water, and atmosphere.
    — Jason Neely and Eric Onstad, USA TODAY, 27 Feb. 2025
  • Processing nickel generates toxic waste, which must be disposed of in special structures in the ocean or underground.
    — Keith Bradsher, New York Times, 16 May 2023
  • But Nessa and Cefin are both killed – directly or indirectly – because of the toxic waste.
    — K.j. Yossman, Variety, 27 Feb. 2026
  • Extraction near a mountain stream called Soda Butte Creek left a legacy of toxic waste that leached into the park for decades.
    — Dino Grandoni, Anchorage Daily News, 12 May 2023

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