Synonyms of landfills

landfills

noun

plural of landfill

as in dumps

a place where discarded materials (as trash) are dumped

we took all of our old, broken furniture to the landfill

Synonyms & Similar Words

• dumps
• sanitary landfills
• tips
• junkyards
• dustbins
• messes
• kitchen middens
• middens
• transfer stations
• sties
• dustheaps
• pigpens
• pigsties

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of landfills

Pumpkins get buried under other garbage in landfills and decompose without oxygen, releasing the potent greenhouse gas methane into the atmosphere. — Dan Kelly, Kansas City Star, 3 Nov. 2026

Sponsored by the city’s Natural Resources Committee and the Geneva Park District, the event aims to reduce the number of pumpkins that end up in landfills, according to the release. — Aurora Beacon-News, Chicago Tribune, 30 Oct. 2026

Offe has also linked its business model to waste reduction, claiming to have diverted more than 200,000 pounds of merchandise from landfills. — Alexandra Harrell, Footwear News, 28 Oct. 2026

Around a third of methane emitted into the atmosphere comes from natural sources like wetlands, with the rest from anthropogenic sources such as cattle, rice farming, landfills and biomass burning. — CBS News, 27 Oct. 2026

But the sudden evolution of the improbably shaped and hyperabundant broiler chicken will be unmissable because the osseous debris of our fowl hunger—drumsticks and wing bones and oversized sternums—winds its way into landfills. — Literary Hub, 23 Oct. 2026

For decades, communities fought power plants, highways and landfills. — Zev Laine, Forbes.com, 20 Oct. 2026

The seafood industry in the state of Maine generates approximately 50,000 tons (45,359 tonnes) of lobster shells every year, most of which end up in landfills. — Maryna Holovnova, New Atlas, 16 Oct. 2026

Every food factory makes waste like pulps and peels, and most goes into landfills. — Joe Mullich, Time, 15 Oct. 2026