In lay terms this is the part of the coal waste which would otherwise not be utilised, and simply buried as the mines progress.

All night long, residents here say, trucks carrying coal waste dump it off the side of the mountain.

And all day long trucks overloaded with coal rumble past the village, cracking the roads and spraying coal waste on road-side homes.

In the early 2000s, £10 million was spent removing the conveyor and the concrete tower and cleaning tons of coal waste from the beach.

However, sometimes the case was made from bituminous coal waste.

The Bush administration contends that the new policy on coal waste will be tightly controlled by the Army Corps of Engineers.

The bad thing about coal waste is that you don't know where it is and you don't know what it's doing.

Has no one told him about acid rain or the carcinogens in coal waste?

An environmentally friendly method of transforming industrial coal waste into a powerful new energy form has been developed by engineers, it has been claimed.

Because of intense underground mining, thousands of acres are prone to sinking, and hundreds of villages are blackened with coal waste.