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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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Throughout the day over four tonnes of rubbish was landfilled in skip and 4.
Councillors and officers are trying to find a way of dealing with thousands of tonnes of rubbish a year which cannot be recycled and cannot be landfilled because of the taxes they would incur.
I lived at that time in Broadway West and it was before Coatham Marsh and that area was landfilled with millions of tons of waste.
 
 
 
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