incinerator
noun
in·cin·er·a·tor
in-ˈsi-nə-ˌrā-tər 
: one that incinerates
especially
: a furnace or a container for incinerating waste materials
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After the meeting, Levine Cava said a future incinerator could also be built outside of Miami-Dade County.
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Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, 22 Oct. 2025
Half went to landfills and waste incinerators, seven stopped pinging at transfer stations that don’t recycle or sort plastic bags, six last pinged at the store where they were dropped off, and three ended up in Indonesia and Malaysia.
—Paul Rogers, Mercury News, 18 Oct. 2025
The rest goes to landfills, the ocean or incinerators.
—Lauren Giella, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Sep. 2025
Keefe Harrison founded The Recycling Partnership in 2014 to boost recycling rates in the U.S., where two thirds of the solid waste that households discard every year ends up in landfills or incinerators.
—Elisabeth Brier, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
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Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, 22 Oct. 2025
Half went to landfills and waste incinerators, seven stopped pinging at transfer stations that don’t recycle or sort plastic bags, six last pinged at the store where they were dropped off, and three ended up in Indonesia and Malaysia.
—Paul Rogers, Mercury News, 18 Oct. 2025
The rest goes to landfills, the ocean or incinerators.
—Lauren Giella, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Sep. 2025
Keefe Harrison founded The Recycling Partnership in 2014 to boost recycling rates in the U.S., where two thirds of the solid waste that households discard every year ends up in landfills or incinerators.
—Elisabeth Brier, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
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“Incinerator.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/incinerator. Accessed 31 Oct. 2025.
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incinerator
noun
in·cin·er·a·tor
in-ˈsin-ə-ˌrāt-ər
: a furnace or a container for burning waste materials
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