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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.

Synonyms

  • Toxic Site
  • Superfund Site

Hypernyms

  • Site

Hyponyms

  • Orphan Site
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