landfill
Example Sentences
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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
The authority enlisted AMP to build and operate an automated facility that will take in unsorted garbage and reduce the volume of trash headed to the landfill by half by removing recyclables and organic matter.
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