Fiji has more than 330 islands, one sanitary landfill, and two municipal dumps.
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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.
And while tech companies have taken steps to extract and recycle that gold for years, much of it still ends up in landfills.
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Mack DeGeurin,
Popular Science,
26 June 2025
Billions of dollars in returns—many of which end up in landfills—are a symptom of a deeper problem: digital discovery isn’t built for how people think or shop.
The musket balls were found together near a midden by the metal detectorist, cultural heritage coordinator Anthony Simmons said in the release, meaning a member of the First Nations could have brought the shot belt there and then discarded it.
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Irene Wright,
Miami Herald,
14 May 2025
The midden is a testament to the volume of shellfish eaten by Hoabinhians.
Palm Beach County owns its waste disposal infrastructure, including six transfer stations through a special district established by the state Legislature.
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Rafael Olmeda,
Sun Sentinel,
11 June 2025
Baltimore’s 2020 Recycling and Solid Waste Management Master Plan determined that eliminating WTE from Baltimore’s waste management process would cost taxpayers roughly $100 million to expand local landfill space and build transfer stations to truck more local waste out of state.
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