Crossword clues for landfill
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 A site at which refuse is bury#Verb under layers of earth. 2 The material so disposed of. vb. To dispose of garbage by burying it at a '''landfill''' site.
WordNet
n. a low area that has been filled in
Wikipedia
A landfill site (also known as a tip, dump, rubbish dump, garbage dump or dumping ground and historically as a midden) is a site for the disposal of waste materials by burial and is the oldest form of waste treatment (although the burial part is modern; historically, refuse was just left in piles or thrown into pits). Historically, landfills have been the most common method of organized waste disposal and remain so in many places around the world.
Some landfills are also used for waste management purposes, such as the temporary storage, consolidation and transfer, or processing of waste material (sorting, treatment, or recycling).
A landfill also may refer to ground that has been filled in with rocks instead of waste materials, so that it can be used for a specific purpose, such as for building houses. Unless they are stabilized, these areas may experience severe shaking or liquefaction of the ground during a large earthquake.
Landfill usually refers to a waste dump.
Landfill may also refer to:
- Land reclamation
- Landfill (Transformers), a character in the Transformers toy line
Landfill is the name of two fictional characters in the Transformers series.
Usage examples of "landfill".
Swamp landfill, which are areas near several refineries, and Exxon petrochemical, specifically.
He thought for a moment about his own little landfill of Chef Boyardee cans and general uncleanliness, which was next to ungodliness.
The vast tract of landfill, washing machines and rusty machinery, abandoned.
The vast wasteland of unruly landfill, a premium trash dump of the worst order.
It was a bit surreal in the wasteland here in the middle of the night amidst topographical blemishes in the blasted landfill heath.
Swamp still appeared benign to those whose daily job was to landfill and dump and level out the increasing bile and fodder.
She had never taken the ferry to Staten Island or seen the Fresh Kills landfill rising like a mountain along the coast.
As the prisoners silently resumed their movement toward the working face of the landfill, Duncan bent his gaze upward, toward the edge of the cliff ahead.
Duncan thought of the Engineers who had pulled him from the landfill mine.
Some, the leaner ones, those who had been toughened by forced labor in landfill mines and oil plantations, seemed less worn by the flight.
Tank was on his way to the landfill with the mattresses and bags of garbage.
Bannersburg landfill, near where the sheriff dumped all the confiscated booze from those moonshiners last year, that I visit when I need cheering up.
But then he managed to get his hands on some landfill and he was going to have it brought down in barges from Missouri.
A few months after the government put the regulation against liquid toxic waste in landfill into effect, they suspended it.
North Dade, the Munisport landfill is burning, and has been for weeks.