as in sanitary landfill
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Fiji has more than 330 islands, one sanitary landfill, and two municipal dumps.—
By Aryn Baker/Lautoka, Fiji ,
TIME,
3 July 2024 -
Other materials might need to be sent to a hazardous waste landfill that has double the plastic lining in place as a typical sanitary landfill in order to protect groundwater from anything that might otherwise leach into it.—
Justine Calma,
The Verge,
3 Feb. 2024
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The car had been in France, spending an extended amount of time in a junkyard and on top of a mall.—
Dewayne Bevil,
The Orlando Sentinel,
6 Jan. 2026
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Decades ago, rangers and local volunteers transformed this area—once a junkyard—into a healthy 70-acre marsh with beavers, otters, turtles, and numerous avian species.—
Stephanie Vermillion,
Travel + Leisure,
5 Dec. 2025
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The auto clean process includes cleaning not only the dustbin, but also the brush, tube, and the HEPA filter.—
Yelena Moroz Alpert,
Architectural Digest,
23 Dec. 2025
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And does a particular level of disuse have to be reached for a word to be dropped into the lexical dustbin?—
Louis Menand,
New Yorker,
22 Dec. 2025
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On the West Coast, San Francisco and Los Angeles are diverting about 80% of their waste away from landfills.—
Tara Molina,
CBS News,
23 Jan. 2026
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Lisa’s fate was ignominious—thousands of unsold units were literally buried in a Utah landfill, an almost comical end for such a historically significant machine.—
Tim Bajarin,
Forbes.com,
22 Jan. 2026
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Moreover, at higher temperatures, pine cones stored in middens, which act as a refrigerator, tend to spoil faster.—
Shi En Kim,
AZCentral.com,
23 Dec. 2025
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Every man must take part in the work, and even the officers cover the middens and feed the sick.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
4 Dec. 2025
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