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social science subjects > business and management > business ethics > corporations and the environment > toxic waste
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toxic waste  

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  • Toxic waste is waste material that can cause death or injury to living creatures. Waste is considered toxic if it is poisonous, radioactive, explosive, carcinogenic (causing cancer), mutagenic (damaging chromosomes), teratogenic (causing defects in the unborn), or bioaccumulative (accumulating in the bodies of plants and animals and thus in food chains). [Source: Encyclopedia of Business Ethics and Society; Toxic Waste]

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