How to Use nonhazardous in a Sentence

nonhazardous

adjective
  • Officials said two cars were leaking ethanol and one car was leaking nonhazardous corn syrup.
    — Ralph Green, Houston Chronicle, 18 Mar. 2026
  • The char is disposed of as nonhazardous waste, though in the future some hope to sell it to the asphalt industry.
    — Jennifer McDermott, ajc, 21 Oct. 2022
  • She was briefly hospitalized as a precaution, but the substance turned out to be nonhazardous.
    — Abby, Houston Chronicle, 27 Mar. 2018
  • She was briefly hospitalized as a precaution, but the substance turned out to be nonhazardous.
    — Abigail Van Buren, Houston Chronicle, 10 May 2018
  • She was briefly hospitalized as a precaution, but the substance turned out to be nonhazardous.
    — Abigail Van Buren, Houston Chronicle, 5 June 2018
  • New York police said the white powder in the envelope was deemed to be nonhazardous and was taken to a lab for more testing.
    — Jonathan Dienst, NBC News, 13 Feb. 2018
  • Transit users should be able to safely navigate to stops, wait for the bus in a nonhazardous environment and board and leave the bus safely.
    — Arkansas Online, 29 Aug. 2022
  • The feedstock is comprised of nonhazardous organic and carbon-based household trash.
    — Carrie Napoleon, chicagotribune.com, 27 Jan. 2022
  • The feedstock is comprised of nonhazardous organic and carbon-based household trash.
    — Carrie Napoleon, Chicago Tribune, 24 Sep. 2022
  • The feedstock is comprised of nonhazardous organic and carbon-based fraction of household trash.
    — Carrie Napoleon, chicagotribune.com, 30 Mar. 2022
  • The material spilled is nonhazardous food waste, said spokesperson Pam Witmer, not sewage.
    — Matthew Cupelli, Cincinnati Enquirer, 10 Jan. 2026
  • Only empty metal food, drink, and nonhazardous cleaning materials containers belong in your bin, like drink, soup, and olive oil cans.
    — Kristin Hostetter, Outside Online, 1 Mar. 2023
  • The smoke was quickly determined to be nonhazardous, Maggiolo said.
    — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 25 Sep. 2019
  • It has not been proven that Jacobs — or even coal ash — is to blame for any illnesses, and the EPA classifies coal ash as nonhazardous.
    — CBS News, 30 May 2022
  • The company recycles all its plastic bags and hangers, dry-cleans its clothing with a nonhazardous chemical, and has patented its own eco-friendly garment bag.
    — Erin Quinn-Kong, Woman's Day, 14 Feb. 2019
  • Latex paint, nonhazardous cleaning materials, antifreeze, motor oil and filters will not be accepted.
    — Evan Frank, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5 Sep. 2017
  • The Perris anaerobic digester is designed to process pre- and post-consumer food waste, including fats, oils and grease; landscape, pruning and other green waste; and nonhazardous wood waste.
    — Nicole Miller-Coleman, sandiegouniontribune.com, 29 July 2017
  • The feedstock will be produced at two off-site locations, one in Indiana and one in Illinois, and is comprised of nonhazardous organic and carbon-based household trash.
    — Carrie Napoleon, Chicago Tribune, 26 Aug. 2022
  • Vanessa and two others were taken to the hospital as a precaution after opening the envelope, but New York police have said the white powder was nonhazardous.
    — Lisa Ryan, The Cut, 13 Feb. 2018
  • Oftentimes, contaminated soil is taken to nonhazardous landfills in neighboring states that rely on the more lenient federal standards.
    — Tony Briscoe, Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 2025
  • Savage has announced acquisitions of other companies in recent years, including a hazardous and nonhazardous waste removal company and a company that removes waste coal.
    — Mark Davis, kansascity, 15 May 2018
  • Keller Canyon is run by Republic Services, a Fortune 500 company and the country’s second-largest hauler of nonhazardous waste.
    — Kimberly Veklerov, SFChronicle.com, 22 June 2018
  • Rigid Plastic Single-stream recycling is designed to take rigid, single-use plastic containers from food, drinks, and nonhazardous cleaning materials like shampoo and laundry soap.
    — Kristin Hostetter, Outside Online, 1 Mar. 2023
  • The investigation determined the material to be nonhazardous.
    — Mark Curnutte, Cincinnati.com, 1 Nov. 2017
  • That envelope, which was taken to a FBI laboratory for forensic testing, also contained a powdery white substance that was later identified as nonhazardous.
    — Killian Baarlaer, The Courier-Journal, 19 Sep. 2024
  • Another two containers containing nonhazardous materials fell overboard the ship, according to Gautier.
    — Lia Russell, Baltimore Sun, 28 Mar. 2024
  • The Calabasas Landfill is one of at least seven nonhazardous waste landfills in Southern California approved to accept waste — including chimneys, hazardous trees and fire debris and ash — from this latest cleanup phase.
    — Rebecca Plevin, Los Angeles Times, 16 Feb. 2025
  • Meanwhile, one of the new audits faulted the DEQ for allowing drill cuttings and other wastes associated with energy exploration and production to be dumped in landfills permitted only for nonhazardous waste.
    — Brian Maffly, The Salt Lake Tribune, 18 Aug. 2020
  • The cars involved were also carrying combustible liquids, butyl acrylate, and residue of benzene from previous shipments, as well as nonhazardous materials such as wheat, plastic pellets, malt liquors, and lube oil, according to the NTSB.
    — Alan Ashworth, USA TODAY, 7 Feb. 2023
  • New constraints on the plastic waste trade In 2021, Indonesia restricted the import of nonhazardous waste to 15 specific ports and in 2025 banned the import of plastic waste altogether.
    — Ellen M. Considine, The Conversation, 2 June 2026

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