toxic waste
有毒废物,有毒废料,有毒废弃物,有毒的废物
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- : any hazardous waste that, when consumed or otherwise absorbed into the body, is harmful or fatal to people or other living organisms: Toxic waste containing lead and mercury had leached into their drinking water, and the number of poisoned residents was staggering.
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In an earlier era, such spillovers would include air pollution, toxic wastes and greenhouse gases.
The auditor’s office looked into it and thinks the Industrial Wastewater Control Program is missing hundreds of businesses we didn’t know about that might leak toxic waste into the sewer — and subsequently into our future drinking water.
Part of the concern, San Diego officials told me, is that Mexico lacks a system to monitor whether businesses are dumping toxic waste into the sewer system.
It’s possible that the city of San Diego is not properly regulating hundreds of businesses that could be disposing toxic waste into the sewer system, an audit found Thursday.
Phillips, the Syracuse professor, offers a metaphor of the platforms as factories leaking toxic waste into our democracies.
When twelve people are killed by violence, whoever they are, for whatever reason, that is a tragedy and a waste.
First, though, he has to be shocked into recognizing the barren waste of his spiritual life – by spirits.
But it is not actually as toxic as it seems (although, admittedly, it does seem pretty toxic).
He said he watched waste haulers back up to the pit and unleash torrents of watery muck.
Kocurek became especially frustrated with a commercial waste facility in Jim Wells County.
It is the principal waste-product of metabolism, and constitutes about one-half of all the solids excreted—about 30 gm.
Then the croupier tears open two packets of new cards, flinging the old ones into a waste-paper basket at his side.