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My vote would be for every Knicks fan to travel to Staten Island and bathe in the leachate (garbage juice) rivers of the old Fresh Kills landfill.—Ravi Gupta, New York Daily News, 10 June 2026 Other Lithium Projects Idaho National Laboratory—to develop an electrochemical cobalt-nickel separation process for lithium-ion battery leachates by eliminating traditional solvent extraction.—Noël Fletcher, Forbes.com, 28 May 2026 In 2025, environmental regulators required the landfill to determine the root cause of the leachate leaks, install liquid-level monitors in the leachate tanks and conduct additional inspections to prevent or mitigate the gases responsible for the odors.—Matthew Rodriguez, CBS News, 7 May 2026 Additionally, chemical leachates from the plastics could act as stressors, possibly altering microbial composition and metabolic activity.—Jasmine Laws, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for leachate