industrial waste
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The team hopes to adapt those natural processes to create lower-energy methods for breaking down silica-rich industrial waste.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2026
According to environmental campaigners, industrial waste is often shipped by Western countries to be processed in Asia and Africa, a global trade they estimate may be worth up to $82 billion a year.
From Barron's ● Feb. 4, 2026
Once revered as sacred, the river now ranks among the world's most polluted, overwhelmed by industrial waste, sewage, and agricultural run-off.
From BBC ● Feb. 21, 2025
She doesn’t want the focus on the sewage to distract from the industrial waste that is dumped into the river that could be making people ill.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 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
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