Landfill
noun
A place where waste is buried in the ground.
The city's landfill is reaching its capacity and we need to find a new solution for waste management.
Often appears as...
- municipal landfill
- landfill site
noun
The process of getting rid of large amounts of waste by burying it.
Landfill is an outdated method of waste disposal and is harmful to the environment.
Often appears as...
- landfill tax
- landfill operations
noun
A place where waste is buried in the ground.
The city's landfill is reaching its capacity and we need to find a new solution for waste management.
Often appears as...
- municipal landfill
- landfill site
noun
The process of getting rid of large amounts of waste by burying it.
Landfill is an outdated method of waste disposal and is harmful to the environment.
Often appears as...
- landfill tax
- landfill operations
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Location Specific
The term often refers to a designated area where local waste is managed.
Residents complained about the smell from the nearby landfill.
Pro Tip 2/3Negative Connotation
'Landfill' can imply environmental concerns, such as pollution.
Environmentalists protested the expansion of the landfill.
Pro Tip 3/3Physical Space
It specifically means the physical space for waste, not the waste itself.
The landfill reached capacity and couldn't accept more trash.
Pro Tip 1/3Location Specific
The term often refers to a designated area where local waste is managed.
Residents complained about the smell from the nearby landfill.
Pro Tip 2/3Negative Connotation
'Landfill' can imply environmental concerns, such as pollution.
Environmentalists protested the expansion of the landfill.
Pro Tip 3/3Physical Space
It specifically means the physical space for waste, not the waste itself.
The landfill reached capacity and couldn't accept more trash.
Pro Tip 1/3Location Specific
The term often refers to a designated area where local waste is managed.
Residents complained about the smell from the nearby landfill.
Pro Tip 2/3Negative Connotation
'Landfill' can imply environmental concerns, such as pollution.
Environmentalists protested the expansion of the landfill.
Pro Tip 3/3Physical Space
It specifically means the physical space for waste, not the waste itself.
The landfill reached capacity and couldn't accept more trash.
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A practical way to help...
We send our trucks out at the end of the day, they help the panhandlers put into the truck the material they've picked up during the day, and we take it to the landfill. I'm lucky that I have city employees that are willing to work side by side with our panhandlers. They're lifting up our city while lifting up their lives.
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How Do You Make a...
jobsite throwaways and this stuff goes in the earth and it stays there forever as a home builder it always bothered me how much material went to waste so the concept of taking stuff out of the landfill giving it a second life it's just fascinating and now we're thinking like what if we can make this stuff and
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Creating a Bio-Industrial...
papers when you recycle them the fibers get shorter and shorter and we finally landfill them there's a group in Sweden that's learning how to take those tiny fibers and put them back together the way at rebuild cellulose elegant structure there are no dyes in this picture it's all structural color and
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Should we eat bugs? -...
since insect farms can be small scale, highly productive, and yet relatively inexpensive to keep. Insects can also be turned into more sustainable food for livestock and can be reared on organic waste, like vegetable peelings, that might otherwise just end up rotting in landfills. Feeling hungry yet?
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100 solutions to reverse...
Food is not wasted by consumers in low-income countries which struggle to feed their population. In the developed world, instead, after food leaves the farm, most food is wasted at the end of the supply chain by markets and consumers, and wasted food ends up in the landfill where it emits methane
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Why do your jeans wear...
This energy intensive process breaks down the plastics woven into each pair, releasing microplastics into the water and, perhaps most ironic of all, shortening the jean’s lifespan. Like most waste, discarded jeans end up in landfills, where their decomposition releases methane gas,
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Vermicomposting: How...
to local farms, hungry for rich fertilizer. So, instead of wasting money, dumping wasted food in landfills, we can remake waste into an asset, putting it back into our food system to make it more sustainable, all with the help of the humble worm, the tiny organism that can help us
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A radical plan to end...
So she is the hero. And that's what that landfill looks like, ladies and gentlemen, and it's solid oil and gas. So there's huge value potentially locked up in there that the world's ragpickers would, if they could, make a living from. But why can't they?
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Can Fashion Be...
each year over a hundred billion items of clothing are produced globally using thousands of different chemicals yet three out of five items end up in landfill within 12 months
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How inventions change...
Disposable diapers made life easy for parents, but they killed off diaper delivery services. And do we want landfills overwhelmed by dirty diapers?
Video examples
A practical way to help...
We send our trucks out at the end of the day, they help the panhandlers put into the truck the material they've picked up during the day, and we take it to the landfill. I'm lucky that I have city employees that are willing to work side by side with our panhandlers. They're lifting up our city while lifting up their lives.
Video examples
How Do You Make a...
jobsite throwaways and this stuff goes in the earth and it stays there forever as a home builder it always bothered me how much material went to waste so the concept of taking stuff out of the landfill giving it a second life it's just fascinating and now we're thinking like what if we can make this stuff and
Video examples
Creating a Bio-Industrial...
papers when you recycle them the fibers get shorter and shorter and we finally landfill them there's a group in Sweden that's learning how to take those tiny fibers and put them back together the way at rebuild cellulose elegant structure there are no dyes in this picture it's all structural color and
Video examples
Should we eat bugs? -...
since insect farms can be small scale, highly productive, and yet relatively inexpensive to keep. Insects can also be turned into more sustainable food for livestock and can be reared on organic waste, like vegetable peelings, that might otherwise just end up rotting in landfills. Feeling hungry yet?
Video examples
100 solutions to reverse...
Food is not wasted by consumers in low-income countries which struggle to feed their population. In the developed world, instead, after food leaves the farm, most food is wasted at the end of the supply chain by markets and consumers, and wasted food ends up in the landfill where it emits methane
Video examples
Why do your jeans wear...
This energy intensive process breaks down the plastics woven into each pair, releasing microplastics into the water and, perhaps most ironic of all, shortening the jean’s lifespan. Like most waste, discarded jeans end up in landfills, where their decomposition releases methane gas,
Video examples
Vermicomposting: How...
to local farms, hungry for rich fertilizer. So, instead of wasting money, dumping wasted food in landfills, we can remake waste into an asset, putting it back into our food system to make it more sustainable, all with the help of the humble worm, the tiny organism that can help us
Video examples
A radical plan to end...
So she is the hero. And that's what that landfill looks like, ladies and gentlemen, and it's solid oil and gas. So there's huge value potentially locked up in there that the world's ragpickers would, if they could, make a living from. But why can't they?
Video examples
Can Fashion Be...
each year over a hundred billion items of clothing are produced globally using thousands of different chemicals yet three out of five items end up in landfill within 12 months
Video examples
How inventions change...
Disposable diapers made life easy for parents, but they killed off diaper delivery services. And do we want landfills overwhelmed by dirty diapers?
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Helen Mirren
British Actress
I'll tell you what me scares me is plastic. Plastic bags and plastic bottles and these things. Why does my water have to be in a bloody plastic bottle? The landfill and the ocean. And I don't know, I'm just terrified with the proliferation of plastic.
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Hilary Benn
British Politician
We face a simple choice. Either we go back to the days when everything was disposable and landfill dumps consumed our countryside at an increasing pace, or we recognise that we have limited resources and need to use them wisely and sustainably.
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Robert Bilott
American Lawyer
And in my world, when I was dealing with this for our chemical company clients, you had lists of regulated hazardous materials, and things were permitted. And if you had a landfill and you had a permit, you had to comply with certain limits.
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Paul Gillmor
American Politician
The current system punishes communities which make the investment in creating landfills, only to have them filled by states which refuse to adequately address their waste issues.
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Robin Givhan
American Editor
Films go into vaults, art into museums, and music into halls of fame. Most fashion is worn for a few seasons and off-loaded into the recycling bin or, worse, some landfill.
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James Blake
American Athlete
It really surprises me that people in this day and age still write such busy music and fill up every space with layer upon layer of sound... it's like musical landfill.
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Jeanne Marie Laskas
American Writer
One of the ways a landfill engineer anywhere in the world earns bragging rights is if he can pour himself a glass of the leachate from his landfill and drink it.
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Park Won-soon
South Korean Politician
Seoul will build more resource recovery facilities and establish new recycling facilities with the aim of achieving zero landfills of domestic waste.
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Janine Benyus
American Writer
Glue actually contaminates recyclables. We throw things in a landfill just because they're glued together.
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Jaime Lerner
Brazilian Politician
We can't have landfills forever, and we can't ask others to accept our trash.
Quote examples
Helen Mirren
British Actress
I'll tell you what me scares me is plastic. Plastic bags and plastic bottles and these things. Why does my water have to be in a bloody plastic bottle? The landfill and the ocean. And I don't know, I'm just terrified with the proliferation of plastic.
Quote examples
Hilary Benn
British Politician
We face a simple choice. Either we go back to the days when everything was disposable and landfill dumps consumed our countryside at an increasing pace, or we recognise that we have limited resources and need to use them wisely and sustainably.
Quote examples
Robert Bilott
American Lawyer
And in my world, when I was dealing with this for our chemical company clients, you had lists of regulated hazardous materials, and things were permitted. And if you had a landfill and you had a permit, you had to comply with certain limits.
Quote examples
Paul Gillmor
American Politician
The current system punishes communities which make the investment in creating landfills, only to have them filled by states which refuse to adequately address their waste issues.
Quote examples
Robin Givhan
American Editor
Films go into vaults, art into museums, and music into halls of fame. Most fashion is worn for a few seasons and off-loaded into the recycling bin or, worse, some landfill.
Quote examples
James Blake
American Athlete
It really surprises me that people in this day and age still write such busy music and fill up every space with layer upon layer of sound... it's like musical landfill.
Quote examples
Jeanne Marie Laskas
American Writer
One of the ways a landfill engineer anywhere in the world earns bragging rights is if he can pour himself a glass of the leachate from his landfill and drink it.
Quote examples
Park Won-soon
South Korean Politician
Seoul will build more resource recovery facilities and establish new recycling facilities with the aim of achieving zero landfills of domestic waste.
Quote examples
Janine Benyus
American Writer
Glue actually contaminates recyclables. We throw things in a landfill just because they're glued together.
Quote examples
Jaime Lerner
Brazilian Politician
We can't have landfills forever, and we can't ask others to accept our trash.
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