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noun land·fill \ ˈlan(d)-ˌfil \

Definition of landfill

1 :an area built up by landfill

2 :a system of trash and garbage disposal in which the waste is buried between layers of earth to build up low-lying land — called also sanitary landfill

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Examples of landfill in a Sentence

using landfill to dispose of trash
Part of the city was built on landfill.

Recent Examples of landfill from the Web

Clean Energy Fuels is also seeking a way to expand its reach by using natural gas extracted from landfills and farms to supply filling stations.

— Fortune, "How Elon Musk and Cheap Oil Doomed the Push for Natural Gas," 15 Aug. 2017
The current uses of former landfills should be identified, and the map should be made available to the public to ensure the mistakes of the past are remedied and communities aren’t built on toxic sites, Harden added.

— NOLA.com, "Live music in New Orleans neighborhoods among master plan changes under scrutiny," 27 July 2017
The change came as Mayor Greg Fischer and the old waste board were about to make public a road map on how to dramatically increase recycling and landfill diversion rates.

— james bruggers, The Courier-Journal, "Secret waste board meeting canceled after Courier-Journal objections," 26 July 2017
At issue is more than 1,000 cubic yards of radioactive oil and gas drilling waste that state officials say were brought into Kentucky illegally and dumped at the Estill landfill from July through November 2015.

— james bruggers, The Courier-Journal, "Kentucky accused of secrecy in radioactive fracking waste dumping case," 19 July 2017
She was murdered in November of 1969; her body was discovered in a landfill outside the city.

— CBS News, "Netflix crime series "The Keepers" sparks calls for archdiocese to release priest's files," 19 July 2017
That's good news for our landfills but bad news for our city budget.

— dahleen glanton, chicagotribune.com, "Soda tax halt in Cook County is halting habit changes," 10 July 2017
For two weeks, striking workers blocked the entrances to garbage truck depots and landfills in Athens and around the country, and thousands of tons of refuse piled up around trash bins, rotting in the scorching heat.

— niki kitsantonis, New York Times, "‘Like We Don’t Have Enough Problems’: Trash Piles Up in Athens," 29 June 2017
The goal was to virtually eliminate placement of trash at landfills by 2040 and achieve a mandatory recycling rate of 65 percent by 2020.

— josh hicks, Washington Post, "Hogan to cancel O’Malley’s zero-waste regulations," 28 June 2017

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