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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Today, more than half of plastic waste ends up in landfills, and less than one-tenth is recycled globally.—
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
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“Sanitary landfills.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sanitary%20landfills. Accessed 19 Jun. 2026.
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