When the chemicals used to make everyday products like clothes, tires, and electronics are not useful anymore, those chemicals become waste. The facilities that make the products decide what to do with the chemical waste. They report this information to the EPA’s Toxics Release Inventory (TRI), and anyone can look it up online. More @Wikipedia
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