industrial waste

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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

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

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

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