Definitions for Landfill
ˈlændˌfɪlland·fill

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1. landfillnoun

   a low area that has been filled in

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1. landfillnoun

   A site at which refuse is buried under layers of earth.

2. landfillnoun

   The material so disposed of.

3. landfillverb

   To dispose of garbage by burying it at a landfill site.

4. Etymology: land + fill

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1. Landfill

   A landfill site, also known as a tip, dump, rubbish dump, garbage dump, or dumping ground, is a site for the disposal of waste materials. Landfill is the oldest and most common form of waste disposal, although the systematic burial of the waste with daily, intermediate and final covers only began in the 1940s. In the past, refuse was simply left in piles or thrown into pits; in archeology this is known as a midden. Some landfill sites are used for waste management purposes, such as temporary storage, consolidation and transfer, or for various stages of processing waste material, such as sorting, treatment, or recycling. Unless they are stabilized, landfills may undergo severe shaking or soil liquefaction of the ground during an earthquake. Once full, the area over a landfill site may be reclaimed for other uses.

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1. landfill

   A landfill is a designated site used for the disposal of waste materials by burial. These materials are often covered by soil on a daily basis to limit environmental harm, including odors, pests or litter. Over time, the waste decomposes and can sometimes be recycled into energy.

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1. Landfill

   A landfill site is a site for the disposal of waste materials by burial and is the oldest form of waste treatment. Historically, landfills have been the most common methods of organized waste disposal and remain so in many places around the world. Some landfills are also used for waste management purposes, such as the temporary storage, consolidation and transfer, or processing of waste material. A landfill also may refer to ground that has been filled in with rocks instead of waste materials, so that it can be used for a specific purpose, such as for building houses. Unless they are stabilized, these areas may experience severe shaking or liquefaction of the ground in a large earthquake.

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Landfill in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Landfill in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of Landfill in a Sentence

1. Sam Kass:

   In the United States we throw away around 40 % of what we produce ; and globally, 28 % of the land under cultivation grows food that ends up in landfills, not only are you wasting all of the energy and water -- and the emissions from nitrous oxide from fertilizers -- you then just dump that into a landfill, which produces methane in amounts that is just staggering.

2. Kathryn Kellogg:

   Recycling should really be viewed as a last resort rather than the first line of defense, we need to be recycling less, not more. The zero-waste community is going above and beyond recycling by addressing the source of the problem: humans are producing far too much waste. Blogger Kathryn Kellogg has stored the bulk of her waste in a mason jar for the past two years. (Instagram Photo/going.zero.waste) According to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Americans generate more than 250 million tons of trash while only recycling about 1.51 pounds of the approximately 4.5 pounds of waste each person creates daily. Zero waste does not mean producing no waste at all; it simply means sending nothing to a landfill, said Kellogg. While the philosophy of zero waste does include recycling, it embodies a whole-system approach to the vast amount of resources consumed and waste left behind. According to the Grassroots Recycling Network, the movement’s goal is to maximize recycling while minimizing waste and reducing consumption.

3. Wendy Neampui:

   I wanted to transform trash from an ugly landfill site into beautiful items.

4. Keith Freegard:

   All those tonnes of carbon-rich waste material that were going into the landfill are now being released into the sky. Why are we allowing this free access to 'skyfill'? we should separate and store plastic in a well-controlled landfill as a future mine.

5. Dean Dalla Valle:

   This is not about a dollar amount, this about a program to remediate, to restore and where we can't restore to compensate and also to leave some positive legacies behind, besides straight remediation, we are talking about actions like sewage, landfill, reforestation, water treatment.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=Landfill
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Landfill
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landfill
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5. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=Landfill
6. ^ Usage in printed sources
   https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Landfill