landfill
/ˈlan(d)fɪl
/noun [mass noun]
1The disposal of waste material by burying it, especially as a method of filling in and reclaiming excavated pits: [as modifier]: landfill sites...
- Waste disposal by landfill accounts for over 80% of municipal waste in Britain.
- It suggests increased recycling, composting and diversion of waste away from landfill sites through alternative methods of waste management.
- This damage to our environment can be a direct result of improper disposal of such waste materials in landfill sites or directly into our water supply i.e. flushing medicines down the toilet.
1.1Waste material used in landfill sites: our reusable packaging eliminates tons of landfill...
- We also look at a new National Packaging Covenant between industry, local councils and consumers, that should reduce the litter and waste to landfill created by packaging.
- Half of this 20-acre site will be landfill with the remainder used for waste segregation, recycling and civic amenities.
- It has also been revealed garden waste has been dumped in landfill because composting sites were unable to cope with the amount being collected.
1.2 [count noun] An area filled in by landfill: landfills will take up valuable space...
- In more remote areas, landfills and gravel pits ruin their fragile beauty.
- Many prefer to develop landfills instead of turning outlying farmlands into new suburbs.
- The second was that I was trained as a geologist and, in 1977, one of my first assignments was to map all the landfills in the Denver area.
verb [with object]
Bury in a landfill: many tons of edible food are landfilled [as adjective]: landfilled waste...
- Now WRG is seeking approval from the Environment Agency for its plan to landfill the site in three phases over the next 10 years at a rate of 250,000 tonnes a year.
- She said they were saving the county council from having to landfill a tonne of material every two months.
- EU and Irish policy is to recover energy from residual waste rather than landfilling it directly.