1.   After three days of cooking, you dump the black gunk left over into a waste pit.

2.   Even before the hurricane there had been flooding and ruptures of the waste pits that contaminated rivers and killed millions of fish.

3.   Hurricane Floyd killed more than two million turkeys, chickens and livestock in eastern North Carolina, and overflowed animal waste pits.

4.   In the hurricane, feces and urine soaked the terrain and flowed into rivers from the overburdened waste pits the industry calls lagoons.

5.   Now instead of seeing waste pits, he will see green countryside.

6.   The old waste pit was becoming a garden.

7.   Waste pits overflowed with drilling mud, contaminated water, spilled oil and discarded chemicals.

8.   After the acid is used, the factory breaks it down with microbes before piping it into the waste pits, Gavrin said.

9.   But waste pits were leaking into groundwater and creeks.

10.   Environmentalists warned Monday that a leaking waste pit at a copper mine south of Manila is structurally weak and could rupture, endangering many villages.