Compost heaps were hastily shifted to stone tubs, and the disposal of noxious wastes was no longer a problem.

"They revitalize the soil, they eliminate noxious wastes we don't like, they keep pastures clean," said Dr. Brett C. Ratcliffe, curator and professor at the University of Nebraska State Museum in Lincoln.

C. Dunlop and Walter Weldon [q.v.]had devised methods for converting this noxious waste to chlorine (which could be profitably combined with lime to make bleaching powder) but they were both expensive and wasteful.

What else is a sewer but an underground pipe that drains off noxious wastes?

The canals became dumping grounds for noxious waste and sewage and an ideal breeding ground for the anopheles mosquitos, with malaria and dysentery becoming rife throughout the Dutch East Indies colonial capital.

He frowned, then lifted the lid and held his breath as he dumped out the odoriferous contents into the even more concentrated and noxious wastes that flowed through what seemed to be a large runnel of fired and glazed brick.

A clump of noxious waste slid slowly down the window, and the guffaws of the night soil men mingled with the bellows of the coach's driver.

A paper factory that spewed noxious waste into a river near his home was forced to suspend operations, making him a local hero.

Every working day, the barges laden with noxious wastes head for a spot in the Atlantic, 12 nautical miles off Long Island.

Back and forth, ebb and flow, the system needed no steady stream of coal or oil or uranium, nor would it spill forth noxious waste.