As indicated by the results shown in Table 5, the waste generation induced in Kyoto by "Waste oil," "Waste acid," "Waste alkali," and "Waste plastics" accounted for −1616, 22, 15, and −2778 t, respectively (total: −4356 t).
The toxicity of oil waste, Ms. Horinko said, "is very concentration-dependent.
The companies had stored oil waste in lagoons on the two Superfund sites.
Officer Mitchell said the oil waste poses no risk to human health.
The community of White Shield was in an uproar over an oil waste landfill under preliminary construction.
But the company also buys rapeseed oil, waste oil from landfills and recycled grease to produce biodiesel at plants in Ohio, Texas, Florida, California and Hawaii.
In 1986, the Supreme Court blocked a New Jersey company from abandoning its oil waste processing plants in bankruptcy, citing a threat to public health and safety.
In other motorsports news: A footnote in the results of last month's Baja 1000 desert race was the entry of Kristian Gustavson, who competed on a custom-built motorcycle powered by algae and cooking oil waste.
HIDDEN behind a row of trees and a rusted barbed-wire fence on a rutted dirt road in the Ecuadorean jungle, Shushufindi 61, a pit in which oil waste is dumped, is hardly a beauty spot.
Thousands of west Africans besieged local hospitals in 2006, and a number died, after the dumping of hundreds of tonnes of highly toxic oil waste around the country's capital, Abidjan.
Mr. Donziger first became interested in the case in the early 1990s, when he heard stories about how Texaco, later acquired by Chevron, cut through Amazon forests, drilled wells and poured toxic oil waste into unlined pits in the 1970s and 1980s.
