Industrial waste management practices has evolved greatly over the years in industrialized nations. Industries who are at the top of the list producing industrial waste comprise chemical, oil and gas, and nuclear. A bevy of new approaches have come to the fore which has helped reduce the environmental impacts of the industrial waste produced every years - the U.S. economy alone contributed 7.6 billion tons of industrial waste annually, as per a statistics obtained in 2017. Environmental pollution arising from inadequate management of industrial waste has been a compelling proposition spurring investments across the entire ecosystem in the - from companies that produce them to companies that collect, recycle, and convert the waste into useful materials.