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

Peter Dinklage plays the title role, a janitor who becomes a CEO-fighting vigilante after falling into toxic waste and transforming into a mutant with superhuman size and strength. —Ben Rosenstock, Time, 16 May 2025

Also, intake water is drawn from deeper than the level which sunlight can penetrate, so biological activity and organic matter is extremely low, requiring less harsh chemical pretreatments that wind up as toxic waste. —Erik Kobayashi-Solomon, Forbes.com, 8 May 2025

The Gun Hill Bus Depot, which sits astride Interstate 95 just south of Co-op City, was built in 1989 atop an old dump — over the objection of community members worried about toxic waste. —Evan Simko-Bednarski, New York Daily News, 27 Apr. 2025

Construction is time consuming, stressful and expensive in normal times, let alone in a disaster zone with toxic waste. —Andrew Khouri, Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 2025

Rhymes for toxic waste

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