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.
Thankfully, city officials—prodded by tenants and small-business owners, clergy and homeowners, and, yes, some landlords—rejected advice to consign neighborhoods such as East Flatbush to history’s dustbin.
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Michael Powell,
The Atlantic,
11 Feb. 2026
The auto clean process includes cleaning not only the dustbin, but also the brush, tube, and the HEPA filter.
This formula replaces single-use hygiene wipes, preventing more than 5 million of them ending up in landfill.
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Tory Johnson,
ABC News,
2 Mar. 2026
The Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery (CalRecycle) has selected a Producer Responsibility Organization (PRO) to enact the law, which mandates that producers of textiles and apparel pay into a system to keep waste out of landfills.
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