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landfill
(redirected from rubbish dump)

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


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In tomorrow's reeling, smoking, lawless greenhouse world--a shameless, charmless place like a vast, sodden rubbish dump, only without any toads or frogs--any species that is not entirely rootless and opportunistic fades into grim decline.
Its sides have been lined with ashlar, but at least it is not the city's rubbish dump, filled with plastic, like so many other Yemeni urban wadis.
Not one in a thousand of such films is remembered today, or salvageable from the rubbish dump of oblivion on account of its artistic value.
 
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