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	Toxic Waste - Description of a Teambuilding Exercise
		The challenge is to move the toxic waste contents to the neutralization container using minimal equipment and maintaining a safe distance within a time limit.
		The rope circle represents the radiation zone emanating from the toxic waste in the bucket.
		Toxic Waste is not an easy exercise and most groups will benefit from some coaching along the way.
	www.wilderdom.com /games/descriptions/ToxicWaste.html (1089 words)

	Class Definition for Class 588 - HAZARDOUS OR TOXIC WASTE DESTRUCTION OR CONTAINMENT
		These substances may be considered hazardous or toxic waste in the event they are introduced into the environment in a manner not consistent with their intended utility.
		Waste proper for classification in Class 588 is considered to be too hazardous or toxic for placement in an ordinary municipal landfill.
		Processes wherein the hazardous or toxic waste is confined in a permanent facility by means such that the waste is not permitted to move or migrate from the permanent facility.
	www.uspto.gov /go/classification/uspc588/defs588.htm (4660 words)

	Toxicity - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Toxicity is a measure to the degree to which something is toxic or poisonous.
		Toxicity can refer to the effect on a whole organism, such as a human or a bacterium or a plant, or to a substructure, such as a cell (cytotoxicity) or the liver.
		Physically toxic entities include things not usually thought of as such by the lay person: direct blows, concussion, sound and vibration, heat and cold, non-ionizing electromagnetic radiation such as infrared and visible light, ionizing non-particulate radiation such as X-rays and gamma rays, and particulate radiation such as alpha rays, beta rays, and cosmic rays.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Toxic (718 words)

	Waste Lands: The Threat Of Toxic Fertilizer
		The introduction of toxic substances from fertilizers to agricultural environments will only add to their concentrations in waterways that state and federal agencies are working to make safe for fishing and swimming.
		As hazardous wastes continue to burden regulatory agencies, municipalities, and the industries that generate them, regulators are under increasing pressure to find ways to treat, handle, and dispose of wastes.
		Rather, myriad hazardous waste laws and regulatory bodies are responsible for various aspects of the practice of recycling industrial waste into fertilizers, often with little enforcement or oversight.
	www.pirg.org /toxics/reports/wastelands (1934 words)

	Toxic waste - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The disposal of toxic wastes is also a topic of international concern.
		Toxic waste can pollute the natural environment and contaminate groundwater.
		Love Canal is a famous incident in which homes and schools were built near an area where toxic waste had been dumped, causing epidemic health problems.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Toxic_waste (427 words)

	Choike - Hazardous waste trafficking
		Following several waste trafficking related scandals in the 1980’s, on March 22, 1989, the Basel Convention was adopted, with the goal of controlling movement and disposal of all kinds of toxic and hazardous waste.
		The prohibition on toxic waste exports involves reducing toxic waste generation to a minimum and ensuring that the disposal of any waste produced is done in an environmentally sound way, and as near as possible to the source of generation.
		Non-working cell-phone wastes are expected to follow the path of other e-wastes around the world, which are exported, often illegally and in contravention of the Basel Convention, to developing countries, where the processing of the hazardous wastes is having an immediate and profound impact on entire regions and its peoples.
	www.choike.org /nuevo_eng/informes/1157.html (1758 words)

	TED Case Study
		The specific focus of the meeting was the control of toxic wastes produced in industrialized countries being exported to the developing world, whose countries are often the most ill-equipped for the safe disposal of poisonous material.
		The dumping of the toxic waste there by FPG was carried out at the beginning of the dry season: the one fortunate aspect of the Sihanoukville case for its residents.
		Toxic waste, when not contained or disposed of effectively, can have serious implications for the health of local people and the environment in which they live.
	www.american.edu /TED/camwaste.htm (2548 words)

	Toxic Waste - toxic waste is the first enemy of developing countries like india
		Toxic waste is the first enemy of developing countries like India, which have become the dumping grounds for some developed countries.
		A toxic substance is any chemical or mixture that may be harmful to the environment and/or to human health if it is inhaled, swallowed, or absorbed through the skin.
		Medical waste incineration is a significant source of dioxin and heavy metal emissions to the environment.
	www.care4nature.org /ecoinfo/planet/toxic.htm (208 words)

	Killing Legally with Toxic Wastes in the United States
		In fact, so much waste was dumped during these years that during heavy rains the waste ponds would flood and run over their banks.
		Faced with a dangerous toxic flood of wastes streaming down nearby rivers, the operators of the Stringfellow Acid Pits released thousands of gallons of toxic waste to reduce the pressure on the pits, which were so full they were threatening to burst.
		As a result of protest and outrage, the state of California was forced to stop releasing toxic wastes into nearby streams and compensate the citizens whose health was damaged by exposure to these chemicals.
	www.colorado.edu /AmStudies/lewis/ecology/pollute.htm (3855 words)

	NGO Forum- Toxic Waste in Sihanoukville
		In December 1998, a toxic waste scandal in Cambodia caused an uproar.
		The import of toxic waste is an illegal action, in violation of the environmental law of the Kingdom of Cambodia.
		Corruption is the root cause of the import of toxic wastes and causes disturbance to the society across the whole kingdom.
	www.ngoforum.org.kh /Environment/Docs/toxicwaste.htm (7467 words)

	toxic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		A toxic pollutant is any pollutant that when discharged into waters of the United States could directly or indirectly cause adverse effects or death to aquatic organisms or man, and therefore, is subject to pretreatment standards and effluent limitations.
		A toxic waste is a Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) hazardous waste that is listed as hazardous because of its toxic properties; however, this term is often used indiscriminately and incorrectly by the media or public to refer to any waste, chemical or substance subject to environmental laws.
		In North Dakota's Hazardous Waste Management Rules sections 33-24-02-14 through 33-24-05-19 (identification of characteristic and listed hazardous wastes), identify two distinct waste types which are identified as either toxicity characteristic or as "toxic waste" (T) in the lists of hazardous wastes found in sections 33-24-02-14, 33-24-02-16, 33-24-02-17 and 33-24-02-18.
	www.health.state.nd.us /wm/faq/toxic.htm (809 words)

	Military Toxic Waste
		Also, the military still burns munitions waste and excess fuel in open pits, because the law governing hazardous waste disposal exempts the military.
		These toxic wastes, seeping into groundwater and aquifers, lie in the heart of one of the most agriculturally rich areas of the Philippines.
		Toxic waste from storage and destruction of excess bombs and ammunition either poured into a local stream or dumped in a landfill.
	www.safetyforum.com /mtw (993 words)

	The Realm of Toxic Waste
		Toxic ChildrenA story of a leaky toxic waste dump where the children and their school suffered the consequenses.
		Waste TradeHere's a lengthy informative article on waste trade around the world, dealing with the present and the past.
		Toxic Waste Index pageA page defining what toxic waste is, examples, and descriptions of clean-up measures.
	www.cord.edu /faculty/moewes/environment/320x/toxic.html (685 words)

	Akula - Speech Contest - Speech #1 Toxic Waste
		Long-lived toxic pollutants transported from distant sources in the Arctic is now a global sink for toxic waste throughout atmospheric and ocean currents.
		It is all because of the industrial and toxic waste handling facilities in that area.
		Wondering what toxic waste was, she decided to go down to the library and find out what it was.
	www.ankn.uaf.edu /NPE/CulturalAtlases/Yupiaq/Akula/speech1.html (1054 words)

	EWG Report \|\| As You Sow: Toxic Waste in California Home and Farm Fertilizers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		According to their report, "As You Sow: Toxic Waste in California Farm and Home Fertilizers," every sample of Ironite was contaminated with lead and arsenic at two to four times the State of California hazardous waste threshold.
		Industrial waste is often heavily contaminated with toxic chemicals known to cause cancer, reproductive and developmental toxicity.
		In spite of these risks, the California Department of Food and Agriculture is proposing new regulations would allow toxic waste in fertilizer at more than four times the Washington State standard, and up to 85 times the amount allowed in some European countries.
	www.ewg.org /reports/asyousow/fertilizerpr.html (526 words)

	Industrial waste -- ideal fertilizer?
		Gaps in state and federal regulation were allowing toxic and radioactive wastes that contain nutrients to be combined with fertilizer and spread without notifying farmers, much less consumers.
		Although it's sometimes called "sludge," industrial wastes are distinct from sewage sludge, whose use on farmland has been extensively studied and regulated.
		The contaminants in industrial waste usually measure in parts per million or parts per billion levels, he adds, and when applied to the soil, "they are further diluted.
	whyfiles.org /063recycle/toxic.html (798 words)

	Singapore: Contractor System for Hazardous and Toxic Waste Plants
		These ensure that industries which generate toxic wastes either set up their own in-house treatment/recycling facilities to treat/recycle their toxic wastes or engage a licensed toxic waste collector to collect, treat/recycle and dispose of such wastes.
		This trend, however, changed in the 1990s, with more major generators of toxic wastes preferring to send their toxic wastes to approved toxic waste treatment/recycling facilities for treatment/recycling and disposal.
		The consortiums, therefore, concluded that there would not be sufficient toxic wastes for such a centralised plant to collect and treat viably.
	www.unescap.org /drpad/vc/conference/bg_sg_14_csh.htm (452 words)

	NOW with Bill Moyers. Science & Health. Toxic E-Trash - E-cycling Facts and Laws \| PBS
		The latest toxic twist is that your computers and TV sets have a poisonous afterlife.
		The issue of E-waste is global, especially since many countries ship their toxic leftovers overseas.
		The Basel Action Network and the Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition published a report earlier this year documenting how many electronics discarded in the United States are dismantled in Asia, with no consideration for human health or environmental safety.
	www.pbs.org /now/science/ecycling.html (788 words)

	TOXIC JUSTICE: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		In November 1998, nearly 3,000 tons of Taiwanese toxic waste were dumped in a field in the southern port of Sihanoukville.
		On the Taiwan side, the waste export was illegal, according to environmental authorities, but in Cambodia, the importation of the waste was almost certainly approved, as the prime minister himself has noted, by senior government officials, who are widely accused of having accepted bribes.
		While Cambodia did not at the time have a law banning the import of toxic waste, there was a 1996 law containing penalties for acts which cause Adanger to human bodies or lives, to private property, to the environment, or to natural resources.
	www.hrw.org /reports/1999/cambotox (2185 words)

	EWG Report \|\| Factory Farming (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		EWG's report, Factory Farming: Toxic Waste and Fertilizer in the United States, lists, for each state, the polluting industries that shipped the most such waste and the fertilizer companies that received the most.
		Because of loopholes in the federal toxics laws -- most notably, the Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) -- EWG found that it is impossible to account for all uses of the toxic waste shipped to fertilizer companies.
		Factory Farming: Toxic Waste and Fertilizer in the United States, 1990-1995 is available on the Internet at www.ewg.org.
	www.ewg.org /pub/home/reports/factoryfarming/fertpress.html (525 words)

	Toxic waste from ship kills 6 - World Environment - MSNBC.com
		The company has denied wrongdoing and said the waste from the ship Probo Koala, a gasoline tanker, was the remnants from cleaning the tanks after a shipment.
		The fl substance was discovered by residents, who took to the streets last week to complain about persistent health problems and a pervading smell of rotten eggs near their homes.
		Medical staff at a toxic waste emergency center at a hospital in central Abidjan said they had received nearly 800 patients Tuesday, and hundreds more were expected to arrive over the coming days.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/14816391 (846 words)

	SVTC:
		UNICOR is a controversial for-profit corporation operated under the Dept. of Justice which uses captive prison labor in a range of industries, including the dismantling of toxic e-waste.
		They were shocked to discover that many of the chemicals they work with are toxic and could possibly be linked to their reproductive problems, skin conditions, and illnesses.
		Workers were trained on how to protect themselves and organize their co-workers to stand up for safer conditions.
	svtc.etoxics.org (237 words)

	Toxics Link : UN: Quake toxic waste threatens lives in Pak
		The UN has warned that waste and debris left in the wake of the October 8 South Asia could become toxic and seriously endanger survivors’ health Palistan’s environment minister also said reforestation was essential to prevent more deadly landslides.
		UN environment programmed Official, Mr Shafqat Kakakhel, said on Sunday it was essential to manage properly the “unprecedented large quantities of debris and waste.” “Otherwise a lot of the waste can turn toxic, can degenerate into toxic material, thereby posing serious challenges to health,” he said.
		Kakakhel said the waste included toxic medical waste, rubble and “aid waste” such as bottles and cardboard boxes.
	www.toxicslink.org /tnews-view.php?id=139 (252 words)

	Toxics Link : News Alert : Over 5,000 poisoned by Ivory Coast toxic waste
		The human toll in Ivory Coast’s toxic waste scandal rose sharply from 1,500 to more than 5,000 people contaminated by open-air dumping sites in Abidjan, the Health Ministry said.
		Six French waste disposal experts have arrived in Ivory Coast to help the administration, which has announced an emergency plan to neutralise toxic fumes emanating from the waste.
		The toxic material was dumped in August by a Panama-registered ship on to about 10 open-air sites in the commercial capital Abidjan, a city of 4 million people.
	www.toxicslink.org /nalert-view.php?id=86 (521 words)

	Toxic Waste (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Toxic waste comes in a variety of forms, all of which have specific treatment requirements.
		The regulations regarding disposal of hazardous waste are very strict in an effort to safeguard communities and the environment.
		These regulations are also specific to your location, so be sure to find out the proper disposal routine for toxic wastes in your locale.
	safety.science.tamu.edu /waste.html (77 words)

	Toxic Waste (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The legacy of our country's creation, use and disposal of toxic chemicals was made plain by the efforts of homeowners in the Buffalo, NY area who discovered their houses were built on top of a toxic waste dump and that their families' health had been seriously harmed from this exposure.
		For example, to fit the definition of 'hazardous waste' waste must have certain characteristics or be produced from a specific industrial process.
		For example, residential wastes do not fall under the hazardous waste definition, but contain hazardous substances which are just as dangerous.
	www.ecothreatny.org /Land/superfund.html (1323 words)

	Safety-Kleen Lawsuit Disposing Radioactive Waste in Buttonwillow California :.: Metzger Law Group (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Toxic Injuries Corporation is a public benefit corporation, whose charitable purposes include the detection, treatment, compensation and prevention of toxic injuries.
		Toxic Injuries Corporation filed the suit as a private attorney general serving the public interest.
		Toxic tort and injury laws are complex and confusing.
	www.toxictorts.com /buttonwillow.shtml (686 words)

	Foundation for Teaching Economics \| Toxic Waste in Grand Bank (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Toxic Waste in Grand Banks is an assessment task in which students from a high school economics class have an opportunity to investigate the issues of economic prosperity, environmental concerns, government intervention in the market economy and responsible civic participation in solving community problems.
		Because of the less-than-stringent environmental regulations of that time period, this area was allowed to become a toxic waste dump with only a minimal amount of health and environmental concern.
		Among the responsibilities of the EPA has is to help federal, state and local government identify toxic waste dumps and in a cooperative manner, monitor and assist the clean-up of such areas.
	www.fte.org /teachers/lessons/prize/toxic_waste.htm (5762 words)

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