Fiji has more than 330 islands, one sanitary landfill, and two municipal dumps.
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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.
There’s that churro bread pudding, the one with a junkyard origin story that breaks down the churros and then reforms them into a dense and perfect block as powerful as an Avengers movie prop.
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Mike Sutter,
San Antonio Express-News,
22 Apr. 2026
Darwin is an octopus who’s minding his own business when he’s suddenly ripped out of the ocean and thrown into a junkyard.
The Shark Stratos is designed for true hands free maintenance, featuring a NeverTouch Base that handles everything from emptying the dustbin to washing and drying the mop pads.
Each mattress recycled reduces the amount of waste shipped out of state for disposal, saving space in regional landfills and avoiding unnecessary incineration.
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Dan McGowan,
Hartford Courant,
20 Apr. 2026
That’s one fewer electronic device for the landfill.
If successful, the bill would also require the NRRA — an arm of the Northwest Hills Council of Governments — to operate the transfer station in perpetuity, as a public facility for handling municipal waste.
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John Moritz,
Hartford Courant,
1 Apr. 2026
The Gateway station was designed to serve as both a research platform and a transfer station that astronauts would use to board the moon landers before descending to the lunar surface, Reuters reported.
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