Despite of significant efforts in the last decades towards utilization of steel slag in the construction industry, steel slag stockpiling and landfilling operations do not seem to be declining in steel-producing countries.
Coal fires can be associated with mining activities including underground and surface mine operations, coal stockpiles and coal waste piles, and they can also occur in unmined areas along coal seam outcrops.
Sometimes entire inventories were sold on to grey market operations, who stockpiled drugs in order to raise their prices, gouging money out of the US health system.
Serious questions about the operation of the stockpile program are being heard at all three of the major American weapons laboratories: Los Alamos, Livermore and Sandia.
There will be a military presence, no-fly zones, stockpiles of antibiotics, extra barricades, intelligence operations and new methods for delivering mail.
An international operation will transport the stockpile of weapons across Syria and then by ship to Italy.
Navy officials were reluctant to give details of the operation, but noted in another context that one factor governing the recovery operation has been the large stockpile of missiles, shells and other ordnance that was in the ship's arsenal when the bombing occurred.
The operation, which involves incinerating a stockpile seized since 2003, comes after a government committee on endangered species agreed on the move following intense pressure from conservation groups.
From its past operations North Korea may also have stockpiled enough plutonium for anything from six to 18 weapons, according to a 2012 study by ISIS.Enriching uranium is more difficult but more direct.
The weekly statistics from the American Petroleum Institute, which is a trade association, and the federal Energy Information Administration measure inventories held at major refining and storage operations, but not the oil stockpiled by heating oil retailers and consumers.
