landfill
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Environmentalists point out that a large share of second-hand clothing sent to developing countries is of such low quality that it ends up going straight to landfill.
From BBC • May 23, 2026
Difficult-to-sort contaminated single-stream recycling can end up in a landfill.
From Barron's • May 6, 2026
The liberty cities model of fewer regulations, however, has also brought with it the challenge of dealing with a landfill that moved in just outside the tiny city’s boundaries.
From Salon • May 3, 2026
Instead of sending it to the landfill, I repurposed the fabric into stuff sacks.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 2, 2026
He was fat, with a white beard that had turned yellow, kind of like Santa Claus, if Santa had been rolled out of bed and dragged through a landfill.
From "The Titan's Curse" by Rick Riordan
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East Asia - Middle School
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