landfill
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Now, the landfill site will stay open for another four decades.
From Barron's • Mar. 25, 2026
"Ultimately, our top priority is to reduce our trash and extend the life of the landfill," Shibushi environment official Kenichi Matsunaga told AFP.
From Barron's • Mar. 25, 2026
She hoped this meant it was "making a dent" in the amount of food that ended up in landfill.
From BBC • Mar. 21, 2026
In 1982, Agnes Denes planted 2 acres of wheat seed into a thin layer of topsoil she’d spread over lower Manhattan’s Battery Park landfill.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 15, 2026
He was fat, with a white beard that had turned yellow, kind of like Santa Claus, if Santa had been rolled out of bed and dragged through a landfill.
From "The Titan's Curse" by Rick Riordan
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