landfill
Example Sentences
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"It's been a really successful project so far and I think the variety of stuff that we get in is fantastic and it's preventing everything going to landfill," he said.
From BBC
Around 80 percent of it has ended up in landfills or the environment, while only nine percent has been recycled.
From Science Daily
He spends his days helping people squeeze more life from appliances that might otherwise end up in a landfill.
Regulatory and permitting constraints make new landfills uneconomic.
From Barron's
The death toll in a collapsed landfill in the central Philippines has risen to 11, authorities said.
From BBC
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