industrial waste

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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

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

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

From Seattle Times • Jun. 5, 2024

A former chemical plant dumped thousands of tons of industrial waste around the San Francisco Bay Area.

From Los Angeles Times • May 22, 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