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landfill
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landfill
a. disposal of waste material by burying it under layers of earth
b. (as modifier): landfill sites

landfill [′lan‚fil]
(civil engineering)
Disposal of solid waste by burying in layers of earth in low ground.

landfill
The disposal of garbage, refuse, and trash by burying it under layers of earth in low ground or in excavated pits.


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For at least one hour, we don't open our windows as the smell from the rubbish tip is horrendous," said the frustrated young mother, standing outside her son's school in a city in the midst of a garbage crisis.
But the Ordnance Survey map of 1900 shows the area as allotment gardens so it may have turned into a rubbish tip after that.
A POSTMAN faces the sack after he placed a little girl's Christmas gifts in a wheelie-bin and they ended up on a rubbish tip.
 
 
 
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