nonhazardous
adjective
non·haz·ard·ous
ˌnän-ˈha-zər-dəs 
: not hazardous
nonhazardous waste
a nonhazardous area
Examples of nonhazardous in a Sentence
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The New York Police Department determined that the powder in the envelopes sent to Bragg was nonhazardous.
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Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 19 June 2023
Rigid Plastic Single-stream recycling is designed to take rigid, single-use plastic containers from food, drinks, and nonhazardous cleaning materials like shampoo and laundry soap.
—Kristin Hostetter, Outside Online, 1 Mar. 2023
Only empty metal food, drink, and nonhazardous cleaning materials containers belong in your bin, like drink, soup, and olive oil cans.
—Kristin Hostetter, Outside Online, 1 Mar. 2023
The feedstock will be produced at two off-site locations, one in Indiana and one in Illinois, and is comprised of nonhazardous organic and carbon-based household trash.
—Carrie Napoleon, Chicago Tribune, 26 Aug. 2022
The feedstock is comprised of nonhazardous organic and carbon-based fraction of household trash.
—Carrie Napoleon, chicagotribune.com, 30 Mar. 2022
Cars involved in the derailment contained vinyl chloride, combustible liquids, benzene residue and nonhazardous materials, such as plastic pellets and wheat, according to information posted to the Facebook page of the Columbiana County Emergency Management Agency.
—Kris Maher, WSJ, 7 Feb. 2023
The feedstock is comprised of nonhazardous organic and carbon-based household trash.
—Carrie Napoleon, Chicago Tribune, 24 Sep. 2022
The 20 cars that derailed at around 4:45 p.m. in Springfield, about 40 miles west of Columbus, were carrying nonhazardous materials, Clark County authorities said Sunday, after state and local officials scoured the site.
—Maham Javaid, Washington Post, 5 Mar. 2023
Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 19 June 2023
Rigid Plastic Single-stream recycling is designed to take rigid, single-use plastic containers from food, drinks, and nonhazardous cleaning materials like shampoo and laundry soap.
—Kristin Hostetter, Outside Online, 1 Mar. 2023
Only empty metal food, drink, and nonhazardous cleaning materials containers belong in your bin, like drink, soup, and olive oil cans.
—Kristin Hostetter, Outside Online, 1 Mar. 2023
The feedstock will be produced at two off-site locations, one in Indiana and one in Illinois, and is comprised of nonhazardous organic and carbon-based household trash.
—Carrie Napoleon, Chicago Tribune, 26 Aug. 2022
The feedstock is comprised of nonhazardous organic and carbon-based fraction of household trash.
—Carrie Napoleon, chicagotribune.com, 30 Mar. 2022
Cars involved in the derailment contained vinyl chloride, combustible liquids, benzene residue and nonhazardous materials, such as plastic pellets and wheat, according to information posted to the Facebook page of the Columbiana County Emergency Management Agency.
—Kris Maher, WSJ, 7 Feb. 2023
The feedstock is comprised of nonhazardous organic and carbon-based household trash.
—Carrie Napoleon, Chicago Tribune, 24 Sep. 2022
The 20 cars that derailed at around 4:45 p.m. in Springfield, about 40 miles west of Columbus, were carrying nonhazardous materials, Clark County authorities said Sunday, after state and local officials scoured the site.
—Maham Javaid, Washington Post, 5 Mar. 2023
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First Known Use
1853, in the meaning defined above
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