Word: toxication
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...good news is that California police are seizing huge amounts of cocaine. The bad news is that they don't know what to do with the stuff since a state agency declared the white powder "toxic waste." None of the incinerators that police use are equipped with the filters and scrubbers required for disposing of such substances...
Cocaine's toxic classification actually dates back to 1989, but state health officials did not publicize it, and law-enforcement agencies continued to torch what they seized. But incinerator operators, alerted by word of mouth and recent news articles on the ruling, have decided to "just say no" to further shipments. Meanwhile, tons of confiscated cocaine are piling up across the state...
AIDS patients feel that their bleak situation justifies the illegal trade. Hoffman-La Roche contends that the counterfeit pills may contain dangerous contaminants or that they may be formulated in incorrect, and possibly toxic, doses. But fear of the disease far outweighs any fear of the drug...
...year more than 1.5 million carloads of poisons, solvents, pesticides and other hazardous materials are hauled across the U.S. by train. Given the sheer volume of traffic, accidental chemical releases are inevitable, and they occur at the rate of about three a day. In 1988 there were 1,015 toxic rail spills; last year there were 1,254 such incidents, an increase of nearly...
...that they avoid particularly dangerous routes. The Chemical Manufacturers Association replies that it is already hamstrung by thousands of federal, state and local statutes. But it concedes that those laws were written with an eye to protecting human populations, not the environment. Chemicals that are explosive, flammable or toxic to humans are classified as very hazardous and handled accordingly. A pesticide like metam sodium, which can destroy an entire ecosystem, is still considered nonhazardous...