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How can I get past the waste without getting wasted?
1 of 5: Have you tried jumping over to the pipes or the slanted machines over to the right?
2 of 5: It looks like an easy jump, but you won't ever be able to make it.
3 of 5: So use the fact that the walls down here are concrete.
4 of 5: Shoot a blue portal into a wall above the slanty machinery, then fire an orange portal into a wall near you.
5 of 5: Go through the orange portal to get past the toxic waste hazard.