landfill

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Garbage-choked streets, overloaded landfills and the fear of trash avalanches haunt greater Jakarta, as the world's most populous metropolis grapples with a waste crisis.

From Barron's

Until 2001, Staten Island was perhaps best known for the fact it took in the city's waste at a massive landfill site.

From Barron's

Currently the company takes wood dust left over from the manufacturing process and ships it to England where it is used as animal bedding or sent to landfill.

From BBC

Another pair of students did a big project where they helped recycle athletic shoes to keep them out of the landfill.

From Literature

A British-French team of researchers attempted to cover all the different ways that plastic affects health, from oil and gas extraction during production to all the products that end up in landfills.

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