Toxins - Not so tasty :(

Hey, wait a minute there are toxins in your environment. Do you care? Do you think that something should be done about the mining waste in our community? How toxic does something have to be before we take notice of the issue or try to do something about it? If we do clean up those toxic mine wastes, what are we going to do with them? Where will we store them? How can we avoid adding more toxins to our environment?
In my opinion, anyone whom has either no opinion or just neglects (sadly, majority of the human species) that these problems are present and should be noted and attended are only doing the Earth harm, and leaving behind a very poor legacy for Earths future inhabitants. Although, On the flip-side, many pro-active environmentalists are seeing to it that this message is being heard.
According to this website:

http://www.nativevillage.org/Messages%20from%20the%20People/How%20to%20avoid%20environmental_toxins.htm ,

there are indeed MANY chemicals in our environment that are tasteless, colorless, odorless etc etc that our human senses cannot pickup, that being said our ignorance also plays an immeasurable role.
If in fact, we do approach this issue someday, I believe the first approach should be to scout out safer locations far away from lakes/ streams/ rivers, because just tossing our mess aside for someone else to clean up is poisoning Earth's many diverse lifeforms, including US!
Unfortunately, I don't believe that this problem can be completely solved, at least not right now. it would take many people, and cleaning up a mess as large as this doesn't come cheap. But that doesn't mean we shouldn't make an attempt; Every little bit counts.