Pesticides

Pesticides

Any chemical or substance used to kill or inhibit the growth of pests that damage or interfere with the growth of crops, shrubs, tress, timber and other vegetation useful to humans.

Industry: Agricultural chemicals

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indirect discharge

Agricultural chemicals; Pesticides

Introduction of pollutants from a non-domestic source into a publicly owned waste-treatment system. Indirect dischargers can be commercial or industrial facilities whose wastes enter local sewers.

indirect source

Agricultural chemicals; Pesticides

Any facility or building, property, road or parking area that attracts motor vehicle traffic and, indirectly, causes pollution.

indoor air

Agricultural chemicals; Pesticides

Breathing air inside a habitable structure, often highly polluted because of lack of exchange with fresh oxygen from outdoors. Solvents, smoke, paints, furniture glues, carpet padding, and other ...