How to Use toxic waste in a Sentence

toxic waste

noun

• Too much sugar in the bloodstream, for too long, causes toxic waste to build in the brain, contributing to the death of brain cells.
  — Alexandra Moe, The New Republic, 2 Mar. 2023
• End of carousel The Strip is becoming a toxic waste pit of armaments and debris, experts warn.
  — William Booth, Washington Post, 7 Nov. 2023
• All across India, there are reports of rivers foaming with toxic waste or lakes catching fire.
  — Oliver Franklin-Wallis, WIRED, 30 Nov. 2023
• Extraction near a mountain stream called Soda Butte Creek left a legacy of toxic waste that leached into the park for decades.
  — Dino Grandoni, Anchorage Daily News, 12 May 2023
• Fill it up with all the residual toxic waste from the friendship and every good and beautiful feeling, too.
  — Elaine Welteroth, Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2023
• The ravages of toxic waste and the horrific aftermath of atomic war are never seen.
  — Jessica Ferri, Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2023
• About 6,000 people are staying in hotels and vacation rentals while waiting for the toxic waste left by the fire to be cleaned up and rebuilding to begin.
  — Byaudrey McAvoy, Fortune, 1 Sep. 2023
• For years, the department has been cleaning up toxic waste on-site and in the surrounding neighborhoods, digging up soil littered with lead.
  — Robert Lewis, AZCentral.com, 1 Mar. 2023
• The legislation’s name references the 1980 federal Superfund law that forces polluters to pay for the cleanup of toxic waste sites.
  — Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 29 Apr. 2024
• After robbing the company, Winston falls into toxic waste and aims to right society’s wrongs as the Toxic Avenger.
  — Ryan Gajewski, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 Sep. 2023
• Chapman, who says her family has no history of the condition, blames toxic waste.
  — Johnny Dodd, Peoplemag, 15 Aug. 2024
• In early scenes, the divers earn their living fetching oysters off the ocean floor — or at least these did until factories started dumping toxic waste into the waters.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 11 Aug. 2023
• Love Canal was one of the nation’s worst toxic waste catastrophes and now — 45 years later — the site for a new, and sometimes unknowing, generation of homesteaders.
  — Jesse McKinley Lauren Petracca, New York Times, 12 June 2023
• However, studies later found that smoke produced from burning toxic waste was full of hazardous chemicals that could get into the ocean.
  — Minnah Arshad, USA TODAY, 23 Aug. 2023
• Then, news emerged that Tesla was being sued by 25 different counties in California for years of dumping toxic waste.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 2 Feb. 2024
• Every year millions of tons of toxic waste are shipped from advanced industrial countries to low-income nations in Africa, Asia and Latin America.
  — James K. Boyce, Scientific American, 1 Nov. 2018
• In 1980, Congress passed legislation setting up a funding mechanism to clean up toxic waste sites.
  — Mike Hendricks, Kansas City Star, 14 June 2024
• Processing nickel generates toxic waste, which must be disposed of in special structures in the ocean or underground.
  — Keith Bradsher, New York Times, 16 May 2023
• In 2022, the scrapyard was sued by the state of New York for allegedly violating environmental laws around pollution and toxic waste.
  — Jessica Sager, Peoplemag, 25 Oct. 2023
• Those hardy microorganisms dwelling in microwaves could have other possible uses, such as cleaning up toxic waste, per Nature News.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Aug. 2024
• Many of my patients live in San Francisco’s Bayview neighborhood, which is disproportionately Black, cut off from the rest of the city by freeways, and has a toxic waste problem from a nearby shipyard.
  — Sanjay Basu, STAT, 5 Aug. 2024
• Getting permits and financing for work on former industrial sites can be tricky because of risks like leftover toxic waste.
  — Catrin Einhorn, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2024
• More than half of people of color and discriminated communities in the U.S. will live near a toxic waste dump or a pollutant industry.
  — Lauren J. Young, Scientific American, 7 June 2023
• Ghee supposedly acts as a scavenger, drawing out toxic waste matter (known as ama) and pushing it into the intestinal tract for elimination.
  — Jane Alexander, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 Feb. 2024
• But a group of researchers from Wuhan University have figured out an alternative means of recycling that avoids the production of toxic waste, and is more energy-efficient as a bonus.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 4 June 2024
• Questions about the disposal of toxic waste from the February 3 derailment have added to the controversy surrounding the crash that has also left residents of the town worried about potential long-term health effects.
  — Nouran Salahieh, CNN, 27 Feb. 2023
• Climate change could cause this nuclear waste to enter the environment, as warming temperatures melt ice sheets that contain radioactive liquid and raise sea levels that could pollute food and water sources with toxic waste, per the study.
  — Tara Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Mar. 2024
• In truth, incineration merely transforms our waste issues into more complex toxic waste problems, such as toxic ash.
  — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 9 Feb. 2024
• Efforts to find a final home for hundreds of containers of toxic waste have faced fierce resistance from local groups and officials, including Mr. Soeder, the Bavarian governor.
  — Frank Jordans, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Apr. 2023
• Since those vast fields of panels and mirrors eventually turn into waste products, solar power creates 300 times as much toxic waste per unit of energy produced as does nuclear power.
  — Michael Shellenberger, Foreign Affairs, 15 Aug. 2017

Last Updated: 20 Dec 2024