Clean up
Clean up verb - To make a place neat and orderly by removing extraneous stuff.
Waste
Waste verb - To use up carelessly.
Both terms in one sentence
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Then it's revealed that they're forced labor camps in which people clean up nuclear waste, i.e.
Source: Literature / The Handmaid's Tale - Put on a Bus to Hell: Chris, who loses his position on the show by being forced to clean up the toxic waste after the events of the canon fourth season.
Source: Fan Fic / Total Drama Switcheroo - Yasuteru Yamada singlehandedly organised a group of retired engineers and others to help clean up radioactive waste from Fukushima power station, on the grounds that the elderly had less to lose than the young.
Source: Badass Grandpa / Real Life
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