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To subscribe, E-mail the words . . After years of unsuccessful efforts to gain public acceptance of waste disposal in the oceans, in landfills, and in incinerators, frustrated environmental officials at the federal and state levels now advocate spreading hazardous materials onto and into the land, essentially dispersing dangerous toxins into the environment, leaving no fingerprints. In June of 1996, the research entered the real world when toxic ash from the Warren County, N.J., municipal trash incinerator was mixed with asphalt and spread onto the streets of Elizabeth, N.J., a major city. Phosphogypsum is a waste product of phosphate mining, principally in Florida. Phosphogypsum contains 30 picoCuries of radium per gram.