How to Use landfill in a Sentence

landfill

noun

• Part of the city was built on landfill.
• At the end of their lives, these packs don't end up in landfills.
  — John Voelcker, Car and Driver, 11 June 2023
• In short, the EPA doesn’t want these to end up in the landfill, so keep them out of your trash.
  — Melanie D.g. Kaplan, Washington Post, 31 Jan. 2023
• Part of it was recycled, the rest sent to the landfill.
  — oregonlive, 16 Sep. 2022
• When there are overflows, the city must bring in tanker trucks to haul the waste to landfills.
  — Elizabeth Campbell, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 2 May 2024
• Most of these creatures are frozen and sent to a landfill.
  — Evan Bush, NBC News, 6 Sep. 2022
• The city has been leasing the landfill from the military since 1973.
  — David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Dec. 2023
• The landfill hasn’t stopped people from buying homes in the area.
  — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 May 2024
• Then, the mulch is piled high for 18-wheelers to transport to landfills.
  — Paige Eichkorn, Arkansas Online, 1 May 2023
• But after the haircut, it would be swept up, trashed and dumped in a landfill.
  — Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 26 Feb. 2024
• Around 85% of clothing ends up in landfills or is burned.
  — Michelle Toh, CNN, 23 Apr. 2023
• The issues are cost and so many used up bottles in landfills.
  — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 10 Aug. 2023
• If its blades can be reused one time, that might keep it out of the landfill for a couple more decades.
  — Justine Calma, The Verge, 13 Feb. 2023
• And more recycling means less trash bound for the landfill for a green win-win.
  — Mike Hendricks, Kansas City Star, 22 Mar. 2024
• The discussion then turned to the placement of the landfill, in an area known for its salmonberries.
  — Emily Witt, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2022
• According to state permitting, the landfill was set to close at the end of 2025.
  — Jesse McKinley Lauren Petracca, New York Times, 17 Sep. 2023
• When your pumpkin does start to mold and collapse, don't throw it in a landfill.
  — Matt Kasson, CBS News, 10 Oct. 2022
• With its landfill sites full, the city sought other places to bury solid waste.
  — Sam Roberts, New York Times, 17 Nov. 2023
• Leaving it on the curb for the garbage collector to pick up and most likely dump in a landfill.
  — Anne Marie Lee, CBS News, 28 Dec. 2023
• Then those products pile up in landfills — or smash rooms.
  — Tatum Hunter, Washington Post, 10 July 2023
• Miami, like many US cities, buries much of its garbage in landfills in far corners of the city, away from the rich.
  — Michael Smith, Fortune, 31 July 2023
• More than 2 billion tons of ash have been disposed in the United States in landfills.
  — Erik Kobayashi-Solomon, Forbes, 13 Nov. 2023
• The idea of searching a landfill, while rarely successful, isn’t out of the blue either.
  — Luke Fountain, Charlotte Observer, 18 June 2024
• The landfill closed and pick ups were halted for two days as a precaution.
  — Stephen Hudak, Orlando Sentinel, 14 Dec. 2022
• Here are some options to give your tree a new purpose — and keep it out of the landfill in Broward and Palm Beach counties.
  — Lisa J. Huriash, Sun Sentinel, 30 Dec. 2022
• The worst-case scenario is for members to end up tossing their grinds in the garbage to be hauled away to a landfill anyway.
  — Justine Calma, The Verge, 7 Feb. 2023
• An Ohio man was charged this week in the death of his girlfriend after her body was found in a landfill, police said.
  — Brie Stimson, Fox News, 10 Mar. 2023
• Turns out mulch is second to lumber, with firewood in third and landfills in dead last.
  — Noah Haggerty, Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 2024
• The average polyester product is likely to survive in landfills for more than 200 years.
  — Rhonda Richford, WWD, 15 Oct. 2024
• In addition, artificial turf is difficult to dispose of, hard to recycle, and sits in landfills for hundreds of years.
  — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 18 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 21 Nov 2024