Peggy dons protective gear to handle a hazardous spill. Sometimes entire communities must be evacuated until a spill is cleaned up. They're called emergency response teams , and they have to be ready for just about anything.
Hazardous waste is unusable hazardous material that results from the activities of human society.
Research institutes, industrial plants, individual households, and government agencies all generate chemical waste. About one percent is classified as hazardous. A hazardous spill occurs when hazardous material or waste gets into the environment in an uncontrolled fashion. Many manufacturing processes use hazardous materials or generate hazardous waste, but a hazardous spill doesn't always come from a chemical plant or a factory. Any substance in the wrong place at the wrong time in too large an amount can cause harm to the environment.