| What is toxic waste?
Where does it come from? |
Toxic waste is any material that is harmful
to the environment. It can be in any form of solid, liquid or gas.
It is usually man-made and is the result of some industrial process.
Once it is released, it contaminates everything and can do severe damage
to the environment. It can be poisinous gas, smoke, or mocroscpoic
particles; or it can take on many other forms. It is an incredible
danger because it can be very hard to get rid of once it is in the ecosystem,
it can work itself into the food chain, water cycle, etc.
Toxic waste can come from many different sources, usually it comes from factories and refineries that work with petrochemicals-oils, plastics, etc. |
On to Part 1: How oil is refined and how it causes toxic waste