landfill

Bonus: Giving away unwanted stuff directly to neighbors made me feel better than sending it to a landfill.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026

"All that school uniform would end up in landfill otherwise," she said.

From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026

More than 30 people have been detained overall in connection with fires allegedly caused either deliberately or by negligence, including the mayor of the tourist island of Paros over a landfill fire last week.

From Barron's ● Aug. 4, 2026

Ultimately it’s better for the environment if clothes get a new life through a preloved section, rather than piling up in a landfill.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026

There is not a dump or landfill to take our trash to and so we separate it— organic, inorganic—and deal with it ourselves.

From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen

Most of that gets shipped to landfills outside the city, costing taxpayers around $500 million every year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026

The county is also taking steps to expand access to landfills beyond normal operating hours to allow Lineage to remove noxious debris around the clock.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026

Apart from that, the Ministry of Environment and Forestry will evaluate 390 landfills across Indonesia in early August 2026.

From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026

"By reusing plastic waste that is already in Hawaii, we can reduce the environmental and economic impacts of transporting waste plastics from the islands, incinerating it or dumping it in Hawaii's overflowing landfills."

From Science Daily ● Jun. 28, 2026

During this period, plastic increasingly filled landfills and oceans while its production—up to 8 million tons annually by 2020—contributed to air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions.

From "The First State of Being" by Erin Entrada Kelly