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a place where discarded materials (as trash) are dumped
we took all of our old, broken furniture to the landfill
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Recent Examples of landfills
Today, more than half of plastic waste ends up in landfills, and less than one-tenth is recycled globally.
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Lisa Emili, The Conversation, 16 June 2026
There was one in New York's Hudson River, Massachusetts' Housatonic River, and there's also cleanups in Indiana along their PCB landfills.
—Dana Taylor, USA Today, 12 June 2026
New York’s landfills are filling up, and the Assembly has once again failed to find solutions.
—Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 11 June 2026
The solution sits in America’s coal landfills.
—Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 11 June 2026
This past season the team diverted 217,000 pounds of trash from ending up in landfills.
—Carlton Gillespie, Miami Herald, 11 June 2026
With the right source and process for amines, carbon-capture material could be entirely produced from the flood of plastics going into landfills.
—ArsTechnica, 8 June 2026
On April 9, the EPA announced proposals to amend federal regulations focused on the disposal of coal ash in landfills and surface impoundments, according to the agency.
—Maya Wilkins, Chicago Tribune, 7 June 2026
When dead trees fall in Baltimore, the city doesn't pay thousands of dollars to dump them in landfills like some cities do.
—Chiara Eisner, NPR, 6 June 2026
Lisa Emili, The Conversation, 16 June 2026
There was one in New York's Hudson River, Massachusetts' Housatonic River, and there's also cleanups in Indiana along their PCB landfills.
—Dana Taylor, USA Today, 12 June 2026
New York’s landfills are filling up, and the Assembly has once again failed to find solutions.
—Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 11 June 2026
The solution sits in America’s coal landfills.
—Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 11 June 2026
This past season the team diverted 217,000 pounds of trash from ending up in landfills.
—Carlton Gillespie, Miami Herald, 11 June 2026
With the right source and process for amines, carbon-capture material could be entirely produced from the flood of plastics going into landfills.
—ArsTechnica, 8 June 2026
On April 9, the EPA announced proposals to amend federal regulations focused on the disposal of coal ash in landfills and surface impoundments, according to the agency.
—Maya Wilkins, Chicago Tribune, 7 June 2026
When dead trees fall in Baltimore, the city doesn't pay thousands of dollars to dump them in landfills like some cities do.
—Chiara Eisner, NPR, 6 June 2026
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“Landfills.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/landfills. Accessed 23 Jun. 2026.
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