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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
Chucking them in the trash isn’t a great option, because landfills are full of old clothing.
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Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 13 Oct. 2025
Tens of millions of tons are produced every year, and much of it ends up in landfills, adding to the growing global plastic crisis.
—Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 10 Oct. 2025
The film is plastic-based, so that's more plastic going into landfills and the greater environment.
—New Atlas, 9 Oct. 2025
Rotary phones, once a staple in the typical mid-century living room, were largely relegated to dusty basements and landfills following the introduction of the push-button touch-tone phone.
—Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 9 Oct. 2025
The biggest issue with keeping hundreds of millions of pairs of shoes out of landfills each year is that they’re not designed to be recycled.
—Jasmin Malik Chua, Sourcing Journal, 1 Oct. 2025
Secondhand sustainability isn’t just about keeping clothes out of landfills.
—Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2025
The rest goes to landfills, the ocean or incinerators.
—Lauren Giella, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Sep. 2025
This film marries the two, as modern macro economics lead people to abandon fertile lands in search of work in urban cities, depleting the white storks’ natural food supply as farms become landfills.
—Scott Feinberg, HollywoodReporter, 22 Sep. 2025
Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 13 Oct. 2025
Tens of millions of tons are produced every year, and much of it ends up in landfills, adding to the growing global plastic crisis.
—Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 10 Oct. 2025
The film is plastic-based, so that's more plastic going into landfills and the greater environment.
—New Atlas, 9 Oct. 2025
Rotary phones, once a staple in the typical mid-century living room, were largely relegated to dusty basements and landfills following the introduction of the push-button touch-tone phone.
—Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 9 Oct. 2025
The biggest issue with keeping hundreds of millions of pairs of shoes out of landfills each year is that they’re not designed to be recycled.
—Jasmin Malik Chua, Sourcing Journal, 1 Oct. 2025
Secondhand sustainability isn’t just about keeping clothes out of landfills.
—Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2025
The rest goes to landfills, the ocean or incinerators.
—Lauren Giella, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Sep. 2025
This film marries the two, as modern macro economics lead people to abandon fertile lands in search of work in urban cities, depleting the white storks’ natural food supply as farms become landfills.
—Scott Feinberg, HollywoodReporter, 22 Sep. 2025
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“Landfills.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/landfills. Accessed 22 Oct. 2025.
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