Sentences with phrase «leaching toxic»

It is, on the contrary, leaching toxic chemicals and causing destruction to the ecosystem on an unprecedented scale, choking and poisoning our ecological balance.

«It is a fact that all of Duke and Progress Energies» coal ash ponds are leaching toxic heavy metals into groundwater,» said Sandra Diaz of Appalachian Voices.

New research shows that some plastics may be leaching toxic chemicals into seawater.

However, bottled water can leach toxic chemicals from the plastic into the water; be sure it is BPA free.

The sight and smell was horrible, it leached toxic runoff into two streams that ran adjacent to the pile causing damage to the ecosystem and thousands of birds attracted to the garbage created safety hazards to planes flying to nearby airports.

Not exact matches

However, one major drawback to buying canned coconut milk is that, like almost all canned foods, there is usually toxic BPA in the lining of the can which can leach into your food.

Lowest risk of leaching, least toxic, no known health hazards.

Not far from the carnage ran a stream that fed Craig's public reservoir, but Miles was told not to worry; the carcasses would be positioned at strategic locations out on the sheep range long before their toxic contents could leach into the watershed supplying the town of 4,000.

Natural Kids: Our creations are free of chemical - based polyester, toxic PVC, plastics and other chemicals and finishes that leach into our children's skins and our landfills.

He is the author or co-author of numerous reports including the Wasting of Rural New York State - Factory Farms and Public Health, Volatile Vinyl - the New Shower Curtain's Chemical Smell, Baby's Toxic Bottle - BPA Leaching From Popular Baby Bottles, No Silver Lining - An Investigation Into BPA in Canned Foods, and Toxic Toys R Us.

Vinyl / PVC, the covering of most inexpensive waterproof crib mattresses, is the most toxic plastic available and contain chemicals that can leach out or off - gas into the surrounding air.

Schade said that safer products are available and that «the only appropriate response to evidence that a known toxic chemical leaches from baby products is to phase it out and replace it with safer products in order to prevent harm wherever possible.»

ALBANY — The state will declare the polluted water of Hoosick Falls a Superfund site, conduct a health risk analysis of its residents and test more water wells to address toxic chemicals that have leached into a town water well, Cuomo administration officials announced alongside local elected leaders during a press conference Wednesday.

The state will declare the polluted water of Hoosick Falls a Superfund site, conduct a health risk analysis of its residents and test more water wells to address toxic chemicals that have leached into a town water well.

Manufactured without PFAS, PFOA, lead, and cadmium, you'll never have to worry about toxic chemicals leaching into your food, even if the pan overheats.

This makes them useful in mining operations as an environmentally friendly alternative to leaching the metals with toxic chemicals.

Toxic lead and copper from spent bullets can leach into the earth, threatening ground water, killing microbes, and poisoning plants.

Otherwise, radioactive material and a slew of other toxic compounds could leach into the groundwater, potentially tainting it for generations.

That's a lot of toxic chemicals and nasty metals that you really, really don't want leaching into the water supply.

As Elizabeth Grossman reveals in High Tech Trash: Digital Devices, Hidden Toxics, and Human Health (Island Press, $ 29.95), her dense and damning book about the afterlife of techno - trash, much of what we cast away is improperly disposed of — regardless of our efforts — and ends up leaching toxins into the air, water, and soil.

Occasionally, toxic substances from waste ponds leach through soil into groundwater or breach impoundment ponds to pollute watersheds and soil.

That slurry is made far more toxic by the heavy metals and other dangerous elements leached from the coal itself.

And at least one group of Chinese soils is approaching the pH values at which aluminum and manganese start leaching into surface water, with potentially toxic results.

Heavily acidic conditions also prompt the leaching of toxic metals into nearby bodies of water.

Even so, copper can leach into food and is toxic if consumed in large quantities.

Not only is paying for bottled water like paying for gravity, but the plastic chemicals leaching out of the bottles have now been proven highly toxic to your body, and our landfills are overflowing with plastic bottles that do not biodegrade.

These are toxic to the human body, leaching minerals from the body and damaging the lining of your gut.

It is definitely the easiest way to make them, but in an effort to reduce the use of toxic metals that leach into the food while cooking, we have ditched all teflon in our house.

Cast iron gives us a toxic form of iron, but it's mostly a problem if you cook acidic foods or are cooking with metal utensils that will chip away at the cast iron and cause it to leach in the food.

Consequently, manufacturers promote to consumers that little to no leaching of toxic chemicals occurs.

Manufacturing just five wind turbines produces 1 ton of radioactive residue and 75 tons of toxic, acidic water used to leach out the required neodymium.

According to an article in the Baltimore Sun (/ / www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/bal-te.md.ash11nov11,0,7340016.story?coll=bal-local-headlines), fly ash is dumped in landfills, and the toxic metals sometimes leach from the landfills into waterways and aquifers.

We are bombarded with fear - inducing facts about the countless things that can hurt our children — new clothing laced with toxic chemicals, off - gassing mattresses, pesticide - covered foods, lead - painted toys, bottles leaching BPA, and processed foods, to name a few.

Some are incinerated, which releases toxic chemicals into the air, but most end up in the ground, where they will hang around for an estimated 400 years and leach chemicals into the ground.

Blooms of toxic algae, nourished by nitrogen and phosphorus leaching into waterways, are increasingly common across much of the United States, according to a recent report described here.

And here are just a few other «side effects» of mining on public lands in the West: cyanide spills; wildlife habitat destruction and fish kills caused by poisoned waters; and water pollution caused by acid mine drainage, which leaches potentially toxic heavy metals like lead, copper, and zinc from rocks.

IANS: Climate change is causing toxic metals trapped in the sediment beds of the Hooghly estuary in the Indian Sunderbans to leach out into the water system due to changes in ocean chemistry, say scientists, warning of potential human health hazards.

The Intex mine would use a process known as acid leaching to access the nickel ore, producing several million tons of toxic waste, contaminating the island's water resources and destroying the tropical forests.

Coal ash contains a variety of toxic compounds and can present a health concern if it leaches into groundwater or escapes from storage sites.

Those products contain flame retardants and other toxics that can leach into the environment and affect human health.

The town board was responding to residents who had concerns that contaminants from the landfill, which can include toxic metals like arsenic, mercury, and chromium, and a long list of other substances, were leaching into local supplies of drinking water.

In the process of fracking, the «toxic soup» of chemicals used to break apart shale rock can leach into underground aquifers, wells and other drinking sources, contaminating the water lines that flow into hundreds or thousands of local businesses and homes.