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What are the effects of industrial waste?

Types of industrial waste include dirt and gravel, masonry and concrete, scrap metal, oil, solvents, chemicals, scrap lumber, even vegetable matter from restaurants. Industrial waste may be toxic, ignitable, corrosive or reactive. If improperly managed, this waste can pose dangerous health and environmental consequences like the uncontrolled escape of greenhouse gases, contaminate water and soil, creating health hazards to living beings etc.

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