Toxic Waste Area (Noun)
Meaning
A site where toxic wastes have been dumped and the Environmental Protection Agency has designated them to be cleaned up.
Classification
Nouns denoting spatial position.
Examples
- The local residents demanded that the government take immediate action to clean up the toxic waste area that had been polluting their water supply for years.
- After decades of neglect, the Environmental Protection Agency finally declared the old industrial site a toxic waste area and began the long process of decontamination.
- The company was fined heavily for dumping hazardous materials in the toxic waste area, which had caused significant harm to the local ecosystem.
- The toxic waste area on the outskirts of town had become a notorious eyesore, with rusting drums and tangled debris stretching as far as the eye could see.
- The Environmental Protection Agency designated the abandoned mine as a toxic waste area and allocated funds for its cleanup and restoration.