as in landfills
a place where discarded materials (as trash) are dumped
even after many years in sanitary landfills, disposable diapers have proven to be resistant to decomposition
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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 -
The rest is downcycled, exported — often to countries in the Global South — or ultimately discarded in landfills.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
1 Oct. 2025
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“Sanitary landfills.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sanitary%20landfills. Accessed 3 Oct. 2025.
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