sanitary landfill
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- noun
- /ˈsænɪˌtɛri ˈlændˌfɪl/
- Specialized
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vertedero sanitario
- A new sanitary landfill has been built to safely dispose of the city's waste and minimize pollution.
Examples
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In recent years, pressure from the general public has been focused on the closing of this 30-year-old sanitary landfill.
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The National Strategic Plan for Solid Waste Management has already been implemented with emphasis on upgrading unsanitary landfills as well as the construction of new sanitary landfills and transfer stations with integrated material recovery facilities.
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During the 1960s, the limited federal efforts in the solid waste field focused on converting dumps into sanitary landfills.
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However, a sharp distinction should be made between the concept of a modern sanitary landfill on the one hand and the traditional town dump on the other.
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Ecoparc facilities, jointly with new composting plants, will replace sanitary landfills in the coming years to a large extent.
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Solid waste management is centered on the first-ever and only controlled sanitary landfill of the country, the Mare Chicose landfill, which opened in 1997.
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Toxic, chemical, and hazardous wastes: Malaysia practices the most acceptable method of disposal for hazardous wastes through the use of sanitary landfills.
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Just as the modern waste-to-energy incineration and electric-generation plant is a far cry from the old incinerator, so is the modern sanitary landfill a vast improvement over the familiar open dump.
Academic text (1991) -
Municipal solid waste (MSW) produced in Catalonia reached over 3.4 million metric tons in 2000, and its destination has traditionally been sanitary landfill or incineration.
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The local council announced plans to close the old sanitary landfill and replace it with a more environmentally friendly facility.
Synonyms
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A place where people bury waste under layers of soil
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A place where people throw away unwanted things, often illegally
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A piece of land where people throw away trash without control
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A place where people put waste to be taken away
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A large open area where people leave trash
An area of land where people put rubbish
A piece of land where people dump waste from homes and factories
Antonyms
How Sanitary
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly derivable from combining 'sanitary' (promoting health, preventing disease) with 'landfill' (a site where waste is buried): it denotes a landfill managed to reduce pollution and odor. This straightforward adjective–noun composition follows regular English compounding patterns and is cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will understand it.
Etymology
Sanitary landfill comes from the idea of making an old 'dump' more clean and safe: people would fill low land with trash (the word landfill is literal) and then cover it with soil so it would smell less and attract fewer pests, and the word sanitary showed it was meant to be clean. That's why sanitary landfill means 'a place where waste is buried and covered to reduce smell and pollution'.