landfill

From land +‎ fill. Compare spillway.

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈlænd.fɪl/, /ˈlæn.fɪl/

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landfill (third-person singular simple present landfills, present participle landfilling, simple past and past participle landfilled)

1. (transitive) To dispose of (garbage) by burying it at a landfill site.

landfill (countable and uncountable, plural landfills)

1. (countable) A site at which refuse is buried under layers of earth.
   • 2025 February 19, “Stop & Examine”, in RAIL, number 1029, page 71:

     A staff uniform recycling scheme at Govia Thameslink Railway has prevented the emission of 2,400kg of greenhouse gases. Some 620 sackloads of GTR clothing has been recycled in the past year through an advanced process called material reclamation - giving textiles a second chance instead of going to landfill.

2. (uncountable) Such material that is disposed.
   • 2013 May 25, “No hiding place”, in The Economist‎^[1], volume 407, number 8837, page 74:

     If the bumf arrived electronically, the take-up rate was 0.1%. And for online adverts the “conversion” into sales was a minuscule 0.01%. That means about $165 billion was spent not on drumming up business, but on annoying people, creating landfill and cluttering spam filters.

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