landfill

CEFRB2

/ˈlæn(d).fɪl/

noun · verb

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Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

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A staff uniform recycling scheme at Govia Thameslink Railway has prevented the emission of 2,400kg of greenhouse gases. Some 620 sackloads of GTR clothing has been recycled in the past year through an advanced process called material reclamation - giving textiles a second chance instead of going to landfill.
2025 February 19, “Stop & Examine”, in RAIL, number 1029, page 71
If the bumf arrived electronically, the take-up rate was 0.1%. And for online adverts the “conversion” into sales was a minuscule 0.01%. That means about $165 billion was spent not on drumming up business, but on annoying people, creating landfill and cluttering spam filters.
2013 May 25, “No hiding place”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8837, page 74

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From land + fill.