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
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  • The children found the mercury in a jar at a nearby junkyard.
    Bebe Hodges, The Enquirer, 28 Nov. 2024
  • That could be yet another disruption to an automotive industry that relies on cars mostly heading to the junkyard after 15 years.
    James Morris, WIRED, 8 Dec. 2024
Definition of junkyard
Noun
  • 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
  • The auto clean process includes cleaning not only the dustbin, but also the brush, tube, and the HEPA filter.
    Terri Williams, Architectural Digest, 2 Dec. 2024
Definition of dustbin
Noun
  • And the Leather and Hide Council of America estimates that one metric ton of hides in a landfill generates more than 13 metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions.
    Jennifer Bringle, WWD, 12 Dec. 2024
  • Thousands of unwanted gifts end up in the landfill each year, adding up to more than 5 billion pounds of holiday waste.
    Emily Williams, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 Dec. 2024
Definition of landfill
Noun
  • 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
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