[Local environmental impacts include the loss or alteration of habitat, the release of wastes that have a direct toxic effect on plants and animals, or the release of wastes that alters an ecosystem.
Nuclear power produces radioactive wastes that remain hazardous to the environment and public health for thousands of years.
Hazardous wastes that are not destroyed by incineration or other chemical processes need to be disposed of properly.
Garbage, manure, and similar wastes that cannot be made inaccessible to flies can be treated with larvicidal drenches or dusts.
The kidneys are the only means for eliminating the wastes that are the end products of protein metabolism.
To fully appreciate Russia, you must peer from above the North Pole down onto the frozen wastes that make up much of its land mass.
Some of that waste is more radioactive than the wastes that will be pumped out, solidified and buried at Yucca, the groups said.
"We also can't know what might be lurking there, whether there are hazardous wastes that could eventually leach into the groundwater," Mr. Cardinale said.
Wastes that were not able to be reclaimed, recycled or reused were sent to disposal facilities licensed to receive specified types of waste".
The case was brought by the States of South Carolina and Washington, which have military wastes that could be buried at Yucca, and several other entities.
The kraft process of papermaking produces a variety of liquid wastes that are sources of such valuable chemicals as turpentine, methyl alcohol, dimethyl sulfide, ethyl alcohol, and acetone.
