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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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landfill

[′lan‚fil]
(civil engineering)
Disposal of solid waste by burying in layers of earth in low ground.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

landfill

The disposal of garbage, refuse, and trash by burying it under layers of earth in low ground or in excavated pits.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Architecture and Construction. Copyright © 2003 by McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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This is not the correct area for a 'rubbish tip' -- it's an abomination," said Kazadzis.
The Cilgwyn rubbish tip, which opened in 1974, was finally forced to close by the Environment Agency in January 2009 after it had been given a six-month stay of execution to allow Gwynedd Council to complete work at a new site at Llwyn Isaf, near Clynnog Fawr.
The rubbish tips have been stabilized by unloading earth over the sides of the ravine to form wedge-like slopes, recalling the tumbling debris.
FURTHER to the letter from Benedict, published in last Monday's Examiner, I must point out that since we transformed Ashbrow Wood from an unofficial rubbish tip into a nature reserve, many rare bird species are now thriving in the Sheepridge area, including rare Spotted Woodpeckers.
The man, who is in his early 20s, endured months of sectarian abuse at the hands of Celtic supporting colleagues before he was attacked at a rubbish tip.
This will probably be the council "civic amenity site" (rubbish tip to you and me).
A PAY as you go point at a rubbish tip is helping businesses in
TEN people will set up home on a rubbish tip in a new Channel 4 show announced yesterday.
The stretch of waterfront that runs to Otterspool is only attractive because large amounts of public money was ploughed into converting what was a rubbish tip into the Festival Gardens, since which a lot of luxury housing has already been built.
An early example was Bedfont Lakes, a commercial development built in 1992 on land reclaimed from a 250-acre rubbish tip near Heathrow, Middlesex (AR October 1992).
AN island close to where Star Wars is filmed now looks like a rubbish tip because of the amount of plastic pollution.
Daniel Dowling, of Castle Street, Pill, had been playing on an improvised raft at a pond in Newport Corporation's rubbish tip at Maesglas when he fell into the water with his sister Patricia, aged 14.