Toxic waste in the waters of New York and New Jersey
Title: Toxic waste in the waters of New York and New Jersey
Category: /Society & Culture/Environment
Details: Words: 1893 | Pages: 7 (approximately 235 words/page)
Toxic waste in the waters of New York and New Jersey
Category: /Society & Culture/Environment
Details: Words: 1893 | Pages: 7 (approximately 235 words/page)
The widely used term toxic waste is difficult to define, it includes mostly man-made substances harmful to life and the environment. These substances would include, wastes with any of the following characteristics: poisonous, explosive, radioactive, corrosive, flammable, carcinogenic (causing cancer), mutagenic (damaging chromosomes), teratogenic (causing defects in the unborn) or bioaccumulative (accumulating in the bodies of plants and animals and thus in food chains) (Enviro Facts - Toxic Waste - , 2002). Earth contains two major masses
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