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"Fix it up...Wear it out...Make it do...Do without"
Old folk rhyme
In 1990 the United States led the world in the amount of waste produced; eight billion tons of waste (of all
types) was generated by oil, gas, mining, and manufacturing industries and by households, businesses, and institutions. This was generated at every stage—extraction, production, and
manufacturing. In addition to solid waste, the manufacturing of consumer and industrial goods and chemicals, the mining of oil and gas and metals, and the production of military equipment
share a common problem: wastes that may be toxic, ignitable, corrosive, or reactive. Everyone—whether it's the environmental researcher writing a book at a computer, the farmer using
pesticides to control insects on crops, or the plant manager refining petroleum—has a hand in the production of hazardous and non-hazardous industrial waste.
Waste issues in Texas, their problems and solutions, is divided into six categories:
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