landfills

noun

plural of landfill
as in dumps
a place where discarded materials (as trash) are dumped we took all of our old, broken furniture to the landfill

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Recent Examples of landfills Right now, most of that dirt is trucked away to landfills. — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 24 June 2026 On the other side of the pond, billions of phones are ending up in landfills with their processing components still intact. — New Atlas, 2 July 2026 Decomposing food can release hydrogen sulfide, a toxic gas synonymous with landfills and garbage. — Tony Briscoe, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2026 Proponents of incineration applaud the ability to generate energy from waste and divert garbage from landfills. — Rebecca Ramirez, NPR, 1 July 2026 The rest is composted; turned into animal feed, biofuels and other industrial products; sold at a deep discount shortly before its use-by date; or disposed of in landfills and incinerators. — John Lowrey, The Conversation, 6 July 2026 When applied to textiles, EPR regulations could potentially increase circularity measures around the globe and divert a significant amount of waste from landfills. — Jennifer Bringle, Footwear News, 29 June 2026 Local Color received a grant from San Jose’s Environmental Services department for the initiative, which will not only make arts supplies more accessible for artists but keep them out of landfills, too. — Sal Pizarro, Mercury News, 7 July 2026 There was one in New York's Hudson River, Massachusetts' Housatonic River, and there's also cleanups in Indiana along their PCB landfills. — Dana Taylor, USA Today, 12 June 2026

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