toxic waste

noun

: unwanted chemicals that are the result of manufacturing or industry and that are poisonous to living things

The company was fined for dumping toxic waste into the river.

toxic waste dumps/sites

Toxic wastes were detected in the soil samples.

Examples of toxic waste in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Directed by Troma co-founders Lloyd Kaufman and Michael Herz, the original Toxic Avenger centers around Melvin (Mark Torgl), a scrawny and awkward teenager who works as custodian at a local gym and is quite literally bullied straight into a frothing barrel of toxic waste. —Josh Weiss, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025

The Superfund program to clean up toxic waste dumps was new and one of EPA’s largest programs at the time. —Barbara Kates-Garnick, The Conversation, 26 Aug. 2025

Melvin is tormented by a quartet of bullies and ends up falling out of a second-story window into a drum of toxic waste. —Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, 25 Aug. 2025

These small, toxic waste items pollute city streets, beaches and waterways. —Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 16 Aug. 2025

Rhymes for toxic waste

• aftertaste
• interfaced
• interlaced
• abased
• barefaced
• debased
• defaced
• disgraced
• displaced
• distaste
• effaced
• embraced