The first case to use civil rights as a means to legally challenge the siting of a waste facility was in 1979.

Officials say this is needed to make room in a central waste facility to store water with a higher radioactive level.

Then he argued that decisions on solid waste facilities were best made by local governments.

During his tenure, two long existing waste facilities were shut down.

"We are a new type of waste facility," he said.

So cities, states and countries increasingly try to keep their waste facilities to themselves.

We would have created a nuclear waste facility on Long Island.

That month, the university announced its intent to make the stadium a zero waste facility.

"All of the county's waste facilities are located in low-income communities," she said.

That's not to mention toxic waste facilities that are just beginning to be put in.