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landfill
(redirected from garbage dump)

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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.


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Her resume includes a 14-year battle to save the Angeles Forest's picturesque Elsmere Canyon from being turned into a garbage dump and founding a committee that co-sponsored legislation to protect nearby Whitney and Placerita canyons.
In the time of Christ, Gehenna denoted a garbage dump to the south and west of Jerusalem that smelled and smoldered.
99) tells of a girl who lives in a garbage dump between the big city and the mountains.
 
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