kitchen midden

noun

Definition of kitchen middennext
as in sanitary landfill

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  1. sanitary landfill
  2. junkyard
  3. dustbin
  4. landfill
  5. midden
  6. transfer station
Noun
  • Fiji has more than 330 islands, one sanitary landfill, and two municipal dumps.
    By Aryn Baker/Lautoka, Fiji , TIME, 3 July 2024
  • Other materials might need to be sent to a hazardous waste landfill that has double the plastic lining in place as a typical sanitary landfill in order to protect groundwater from anything that might otherwise leach into it.
    Justine Calma, The Verge, 3 Feb. 2024
Definition of sanitary landfill
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  • Well, many of those objects - or fragments of them - are still there, languishing above Earth in an ever-expanding space junkyard.
    Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 27 Dec. 2024
  • The man was standing with his back to the junkyard.
    Jamie Quatro, Harper's Magazine, 2 Aug. 2024
Definition of junkyard
Noun
  • It is now lost to the dustbin of history as a clear civil rights violation.
    Mark R. Weaver, Newsweek, 4 Dec. 2024
  • As for Harris, she will be tasked as vice president with the role of presiding over Congress' certification of Trump's victory on January 6 of next year—four years to the day since the riot at the Capitol that seemed, at the time, destined to send her opponent to the dustbin of history.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 8 Nov. 2024
Definition of dustbin
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  • The Arkansas Pollution Control and Ecology Commission approved a permit March 17, 2023, for a 12-acre expansion of the landfill in Tontitown owned by WM Inc. for its Class IV landfill space.
    Tom Sissom, arkansasonline.com, 8 Jan. 2025
  • Even a small repair can keep an appliance, piece of furniture or other item out of the landfill while also helping someone on a tight budget.
    Beth Lipoff, Kansas City Star, 8 Jan. 2025
Definition of landfill
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  • Also plugging into the idea of tourism as education, marine biologist Cormac McGinley runs leave-no-trace fossil discovery walks and tours of the Burren’s lunar-like landscape, which take in sea caves, ancient middens, and color-popping anemones.
    Sarah James, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Nov. 2024
  • Although the bones of fish, cattle, sheep and pig were pulled out of the middens (halos of garbage dumped from the huts above), there was no evidence of human casualties.
    Franz Lidz, New York Times, 19 Mar. 2024
Definition of midden
Noun
  • The new federal order requires the sharing of raw milk samples, upon request, from dairy farms, bulk milk shippers, milk transfer stations or dairy processing facilities that send or hold milk for pasteurization.
    Alexandra Banner, CNN, 11 Dec. 2024
  • The new order requires the sharing of raw milk samples, upon request, from dairy farms, bulk milk shippers, milk transfer stations or dairy processing facilities that send or hold milk for pasteurization.
    CNN.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 6 Dec. 2024
Definition of transfer station
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