Sad. I had no idea “dump it in the water” was still a waste disposal practice in any developed nations. As per the article, only three countries on earth still grant licenses for this: Turkey, Papua New Guinea, and Norway.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Ivory_Coast_toxic_waste_d...
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trafigura
[2] https://www.nrk.no/dokumentar/a-small-pawn-in-the-game-1.610...
Places you would need expect like Tahiti which is a French Overseas Entity, and even Hawaii. There aren't a lot of options in some places.
I was making the point that the parent commenter made an arbitrary distinction that wasn't even true.
There are other minerals, rather are side effects of mining the true target minerals, that are "burnable". They're used in fireworks to make them different colors.
https://mineralseducationcoalition.org/wp-content/uploads/te...