industrial waste

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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

The organizations said Mexico, Nigeria and Senegal will serve as models for programs that reduce methane from agriculture, and capture gas that would otherwise be flared and turn industrial waste into usable energy.

From Barron's • Nov. 10, 2025

Some of the rubbish will have to be dug up and removed because the disused quarry is not an appropriate place to store industrial waste.

From BBC • Sep. 3, 2025

For decades, the Anacostia was treated as a municipal dumping ground for industrial waste, storm sewers and trash.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 5, 2024

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