landfill
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- noun
- /ˈlændˌfɪl/
- Specialized
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vertedero
- Most of the time it ends up in landfill, or it is turned into fertilizer for crops.
- landfill waste
- disposal in landfills
- going into landfills
This works especially well for remote or small landfills that don't produce a lot.
- This works especially well for remote or small landfills that don't produce a lot.
- But two, it's polluting our landfills and it's destroying our Tampa Bay.
- Most of the time it ends up in landfill, or it is turned into fertilizer for crops.
- One of the big goals, sustainability, is to not keep filling our landfills with more junk that will never go away.
- Essentially, the goal is to make and use less new stuff and dump less stuff into landfills.
- Much of Mumbai, India, home to the largest slum settlement in the world, is built essentially on landfill.
- And I wouldn't be surprised if maybe not you, but your kids develop ways to mine our landfills.
- Anyway, bro, it was just crazy that basically what I toured was like a hollowed out landfill.
Examples
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We're saving it from landfill.
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I thought most of this stuff would've ended up in a landfill.
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Um, we should have the whole landfill closed out by tonight.
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Maybe we can use this stuff for landfill.
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That disk is probably in a Tokyo landfill by now.
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Why didn't they put the landfill closer?
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Most of the house was hauled away to be buried in a landfill.
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One of the big goals, sustainability, is to not keep filling our landfills with more junk that will never go away.
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Since we are running out of landfills, we just can't afford to fill the space with plastic.
Fiction book (1995) -
The city plans to expand the landfill to accommodate more waste as the population grows.
Synonyms
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1.1
A place where people leave large amounts of rubbish
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1.0
A place where people take and leave large amounts of waste
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4.0
A place where people throw away unwanted things, often illegally
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4.5
A piece of land where people throw away trash without control
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2.4
A pile of garbage and old things people throw away
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1.3
A heap of thrown away things like paper and bottles
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2.1
A place where people put waste to be taken away
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A large pile of things that people have thrown away
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A pile of waste and old things
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4.0
A place where trash is buried and covered with earth to reduce smell and pollution
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2.0
A large open area where people leave trash
A piece of land where people dump waste from homes and factories
A pile of rubbish left outside in one place
Compounds
- Specialized
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4.0
A place where trash is buried and covered with earth to reduce smell and pollution
- Literature
A type of indie music from the 2000s that people see as very similar and not original
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Etymology
Landfill is a simple combination of land and fill, meaning land that is 'filled' with waste. It originally named places where rubbish is buried to raise or reclaim the ground, which is why a landfill is an area of land used to bury trash.