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• n  a low area that has been filled in

• A big reason for Britain's landfill addiction is that it's relatively inexpensive to bury rubbish.
• For decades, New York's trash went to Fresh Kills landfill on Staten Island.
• A General Electric biogas engine, still bearing the decorations from a blessing ceremony, is installed near a landfill on Bali and used to convert methane gases to electricity .

News & Articles

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• Whatever happened to ... Cleanup has improved Birchwood Pike landfill
  Question: Whatever happened to the landfill cleanup on Birchwood Pike?
  June 23, 2013 - Chattanooga Times Free Press
• Landfill only open to four-wheel-drive vehicles
  The landfill is open to commercial and four-wheel-drive vehicles only due to muddy conditions.
  June 21, 2013 - Rapid City Journal
• Landfill fire gets new life
  The yard waste pile at the city landfill is ablaze — again.
  June 20, 2013 - Rapid City Journal

Quotes

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• Peter Garrett in Reuters UK
  There are some 4 billion of these plastic bags floating around the place, getting into landfill, ending up affecting our wildlife, and showing up on our beaches while we are on holidays,Environment Minister Peter Garrett said on Thursday.
• Edward Leigh in Daily Mail
  Tory MP Edward Leigh, chairman of the committee, said: "Faced with the 1999 EU directive limiting the amount of biodegradable waste sent to landfill, DEFRA issued no fewer than four vaguely worded consulation papers and strategies on waste...
• David Miliband in guardian.co.uk
  Introducing the 2007 waste strategy for England, Mr Miliband said: "Our key objectives are less waste, more re-use and recycling, more energy from waste and less landfill."