dustheap

noun

Definition of dustheapnext
as in sanitary landfill

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  1. sanitary landfill
  2. junkyard
  3. dustbin
  4. landfill
  5. midden
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
Noun
  • Behind the gates of his Los Angeles junkyard, protected by steel fencing and razor wire, German immigrant and businessman Rudi Klein spent 40 years amassing an incredible array of rare European classic cars.
    Howard Walker, Robb Report, 25 Sep. 2024
  • There are parts of Usher’s bubble-gum dystopia that help Mystery Men still feel novel 22 years after release, like the villainous goons obsessed with disco, Tom Waits’s junkyard of nonlethal inventions, and Michael Bay playing a decent human being.
    Sean Malin, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2024
Definition of junkyard
Noun
  • In the meantime, however, the robovac delivers plenty of suction power, a spacious dustbin, and a 240ml water tank that allows this robot to also mop your floors.
    Gabriela Vatu, PCMAG, 11 Nov. 2024
  • Hundreds of tiny bristles latch onto hair, pulling it off your surfaces and stuffing it into a dustbin built into the bottom of the roller with just a few gentle swipes.
    Mia Meltzer, Rolling Stone, 24 Oct. 2024
Definition of dustbin
Noun
  • Food is often cut off from oxygen when it's piled up in a landfill.
    London Gibson, The Indianapolis Star, 4 Nov. 2024
  • In the Wednesday complaint, the county alleged that the companies promoted their bottles as recyclable but knew most of them would end up in landfills and that they cannot be meaningfully recycled without environmental harms.
    Zack Budryk, The Hill, 1 Nov. 2024
Definition of landfill
Noun
  • 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
  • The land has been largely untouched for centuries — the Mocama and the Guale tribes had a presence on neighboring St. Simons Island, and while there is little information about Indigenous groups on Little St. Simons, shell middens suggest there was travel between the two.
    Gisela Williams, Travel + Leisure, 16 Oct. 2023
Definition of midden
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