How to Use landfill in a Sentence

landfill

noun

• Part of the city was built on landfill.
• At the end of their lives, these packs don't end up in landfills.
  — John Voelcker, Car and Driver, 11 June 2023
• The city has been leasing the landfill from the military since 1973.
  — David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Dec. 2023
• Then, the mulch is piled high for 18-wheelers to transport to landfills.
  — Paige Eichkorn, Arkansas Online, 1 May 2023
• But after the haircut, it would be swept up, trashed and dumped in a landfill.
  — Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 26 Feb. 2024
• Around 85% of clothing ends up in landfills or is burned.
  — Michelle Toh, CNN, 23 Apr. 2023
• The issues are cost and so many used up bottles in landfills.
  — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 10 Aug. 2023
• And more recycling means less trash bound for the landfill for a green win-win.
  — Mike Hendricks, Kansas City Star, 22 Mar. 2024
• According to state permitting, the landfill was set to close at the end of 2025.
  — Jesse McKinley Lauren Petracca, New York Times, 17 Sep. 2023
• With its landfill sites full, the city sought other places to bury solid waste.
  — Sam Roberts, New York Times, 17 Nov. 2023
• Leaving it on the curb for the garbage collector to pick up and most likely dump in a landfill.
  — Anne Marie Lee, CBS News, 28 Dec. 2023
• Then those products pile up in landfills — or smash rooms.
  — Tatum Hunter, Washington Post, 10 July 2023
• Miami, like many US cities, buries much of its garbage in landfills in far corners of the city, away from the rich.
  — Michael Smith, Fortune, 31 July 2023
• More than 2 billion tons of ash have been disposed in the United States in landfills.
  — Erik Kobayashi-Solomon, Forbes, 13 Nov. 2023
• Don’t even talk to her about those plastic cards that most people forget to use and end up in landfill.
  — Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 31 Dec. 2023
• One aspect of this is how easy the Fairphone 5 is to repair, with the aim of keeping it usable for longer and, hence, out of landfill.
  — Jon Porter, The Verge, 30 Aug. 2023
• The town of Brookhaven had promised to close the landfill in 2024, but the community is skeptical and is fighting to shut it down now.
  — Nicholas St. Fleur, STAT, 22 May 2023
• In the United States alone, more than 11 million tons of textiles end up in landfills every year.
  — Theresa Vargas, Washington Post, 22 Nov. 2023
• Most of the stuff that humanity makes ends up in landfill very quickly.
  — Gideon Lichfield, WIRED, 26 July 2023
• So a lot of those packages were just waiting to be transported to landfill.
  — Shomik Mukherjee, The Mercury News, 19 Jan. 2024
• The vote against the landfill project marked the issue’s return to Jefferson City after a dispute over the project ground the state Senate to a halt last year.
  — Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 7 Mar. 2024
• The scope of the state’s review also includes wastewater treatment plants and landfills.
  — Christine Condon, Baltimore Sun, 15 Feb. 2024
• The team takes Suzy to a creative reuse shop, which gives the show a chance to remind us that about one percent of trash in Sweden ends up in a landfill.
  — Chris Vognar, Rolling Stone, 29 Apr. 2023
• Kristin Dennis: Brandy went to the landfill ... like something of no importance.
  — Peter Van Sant, CBS News, 21 Oct. 2023
• Garments that don’t end up in local landfills are often shipped in bulk to countries in the Global South.
  — Heather Souvaine Horn, The New Republic, 2 June 2023
• On a Guatemala river that looks more like a landfill, the device collected 2.5 million pounds of trash in just three weeks.
  — Ben Tracy, CBS News, 9 Sep. 2023
• The wrong and environmentally lazy answer is to send them off to the landfill.
  — Steve Bender, Southern Living, 22 Aug. 2023
• This allowed items to remain in use—and therefore out of landfills—for longer periods of time.
  — Maggie Gillette, Better Homes & Gardens, 29 Sep. 2023
• The city has a goal of diverting all of its green waste out of landfills by 2050, Yaroslasvky said, and in the average kitchen trash bag, about half of what is tossed in is compostable.
  — Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2023
• The landfill was finally shuttered in 2001; the last materials dumped there were the remnants of the Twin Towers.
  — Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 3 May 2024