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 Environmental Protection Agency’s Superfund program’s work started decades ago to clean up sites contaminated by hazardous waste from mining operations, landfills and factories.—
Chloe Bennett-Steele,
StateImpact,
17 Feb. 2026 -
The agency said the complaints lodged against Bowerman, one of the largest landfills in the country, far outpace those received about the two other OC landfills.—
Claire Wang,
Oc Register,
10 Feb. 2026
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“Sanitary landfills.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sanitary%20landfills. Accessed 20 Feb. 2026.
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