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- adjective Not
hazardous ;safe .
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Examples
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With such weak regulation and political accountability, rubbish can be sent to Guangdong in the name of nonhazardous recycling, but the end result is often toxic rubbish dumps that damage the health of local people.
When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010
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With such weak regulation and political accountability, rubbish can be sent to Guangdong in the name of nonhazardous recycling, but the end result is often toxic rubbish dumps that damage the health of local people.
When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010
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With such weak regulation and political accountability, rubbish can be sent to Guangdong in the name of nonhazardous recycling, but the end result is often toxic rubbish dumps that damage the health of local people.
When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010
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TexCom wants to bury liquid commercial waste that is classified as nonhazardous, but could include trace amounts of toxic chemicals, including cancer-causing benzene.
chron.com Chronicle 2011
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The long days and late nights of spraying "nonhazardous" chemicals at restaurants and businesses helped instill in me a strong work ethic and an appreciation for the employment opportunities which I currently find myself exploring.
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Firefighters, feds investigate 'nonhazardous' powder found at Evansville federal building
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The remainder, some 12 billion tons a year, is mostly nonhazardous industrial waste, plus mining, agricultural, and hazardous waste.
An Interview with Elizabeth Royte, author of Garbage Land 2010
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The EPA estimates the cost of the hazardous-waste and nonhazardous-waste approaches at $20 billion and $8 billion, respectively.
EPA Proposes Competing Approaches to Regulate Coal-Ash Waste 2010
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A utility-industry group in a statement said regulation of coal ash as a nonhazardous waste alongside new federal standards for ash pond safety would be the only "prudent" course for the EPA.
EPA Proposes Competing Approaches to Regulate Coal-Ash Waste 2010
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Back in 1998, it challenged the state's decision to issue a permit for a nonhazardous oilfield waste treatment, storage, and disposal facility near Gibson (the clinic won) and also challenged the Louisiana Board of Commerce and Industry's grant of a tax exemption to a company for a hazardous waste incinerator facility in East Baton Rouge Parish (the clinic won this one, too).
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