How To Use Landfill In A Sentence

Her own valuers had estimated that the property was worth £150,000 on the basis of agricultural use of the surrounding land, and virtually nothing on the basis of mining and/or landfill operations.
Bury council hopes that cutting down from fortnightly collections of general waste will encourage recycling and save on landfill tax and treatment costs. Times, Sunday Times
Recently both the Times and the New York Daily News have editorialized in favor of reopening the Fresh Kills landfill.
In addition, he said the Government has imposed a landfill tax on the disposal of each ton of material at landfill.
At Stockton-on-Tees a landfill site has been used for disposal of pigs and sheep from Danby Wiske and Easingwold in North Yorkshire, and dumping of sheep began at a former opencast mine near Widdrington, Northumberland.

Haul paper containers to a sanitary landfill or burn them in an approved manner.
Extend tax credit for electricity produced from wind and closed - loop biomass; provide credits for open-loop biomass facilities and coal-biomass cofiring; and provide credits for methane from certain landfills -91 -976 Fact Sheet On The Climate Change Technology Initiative
By definition, it's a messy job for the sorters, and anything in a plastic bag goes straight to landfill.
Hence their scramble to divert domestic rubbish anywhere but landfill. Times, Sunday Times
SPOKANE -- A lawsuit has been filed in federal court in Spokane to prevent garbage from being shipped from Hawaii to a landfill in the Eastern Washington town of Roosevelt. The News Tribune - Tacoma - - HOMEPAGE
This cello's rubbish Musicians have formed an orchestra playing instruments made from landfill waste. Times, Sunday Times
Â Well, when you find yourself throwing out about 70 pounds of garbage per week, instead of putting that into plastic garbage bags that sit in landfills, we save money by using less. Going Green Five Best Ways To Compost | myFiveBest
This will avoid landfill and reduce our dependence on fossil fuels - exactly the sort of innovation we need to encourage. Times, Sunday Times
Companies are also being asked to ban personal bins to reduce landfill and improve recycling. Times, Sunday Times
Remarkably and against all odds, the drugs are sometimes seen when the truck unloads at the Michigan landfill.
Besides sequence superpose reinforced hoop can use for build large flexibility storage building or build trash landfill field.
It aims to reduce the amount of waste we send to landfill - almost 2 million tonnes of household and commercial/trade waste in 2001 was landfilled.
People used our address as a backwoods landfill, depositing the unsought and the unclean.
There are 18 other taxes that hit businesses ranging from landfill tax and excise duty to insurance premium tax. Times, Sunday Times
They have also indicated an intention to grant a form of license, which would permit only the acceptance of clay and topsoil at the landfill for the purpose of restoration and landscaping.
Environmentalists say there is a high risk of pollution from the landfill site.
Each British person will be responsible for 40 tonnes of waste ending up in a landfill site. Times, Sunday Times
Computers contain a variety of metals and chemicals - such as lead, mercury and brominated flame retardants - which are particularly nasty if dumped in landfill sites.
They were furious that lorries could go to and from the site at a rate of one every five minutes to take tens of thousands of tonnes of rubble from the old mill to landfill on the site.
The result was an ambitious target for Essex of 65 per cent of waste diverted from landfill without incineration by 2007.
Rather it ends up in landfill, where it takes as long to break down as everything else and may actually contribute more greenhouse gases than traditional plastic packaging. Gwen Ruta: What Do iPhones, Coca-Cola and SunChips Have in Common?
Town halls claim the new approach is necessary to save cash spent dumping rubbish in landfill and to meet environmental targets. The Sun
Town halls claim the new approach is necessary to save cash spent dumping rubbish in landfill and to meet environmental targets. The Sun
The plant is expected to emit 60 to 65 percent of the CO2 produced by a conventional coal plant and eliminate 1.5 million pounds of waste that would otherwise be landfilled.
Allowing Bradford's garbage to be dumped in Skibeden will hasten the day this landfill site is full.
Projects include approach roads to dumping yards, development of sanitary fills, small and medium composting landfills.
By recycling these items they are diverted from landfill avoiding the associated environmental problems.
Countryside dwellers are planning direct action protests should a North Yorkshire landfill site be used to bury foot and mouth culled cattle.
The local authority has used an aircraft to provide thermal images of the area in order to pinpoint all the illegal landfills on the site which is used for legitimate quarrying by CRH.
To help to meet its obligations, the Government has increased taxes on sending waste to landfill. Times, Sunday Times
By dispensing with such waste at home rather than putting it in dustbins, householders can reduce the amount dumped in landfill.
Landfill is always discussed as smelly, polluting and potentially unhealthy.
There will always be residual waste, which must either be thermally treated or landfilled.
Moreover, degradable bags don't break down so quickly in landfill. Times, Sunday Times
Open landfills had attracted negative publicity in the 1920s and 1930s and for the most part had been cleaned up.
By recycling old carpets the team hope to reduce the pressure on landfill sites and provide a low-cost alternative to underlays currently available.
In the absence of information on site or geological factors affecting emissions from landfill, we examined data for special waste sites as a proxy for potential hazard.
In addition, killdeer, pipits and some shorebirds visit the grassy areas of landfills.
AgriPower has developed a ‘virtual landfill’ system that can produce electricity and heat by burning anything from nuts to old tires.
The residue was sent off to a solid hazardous waste landfill, until they refused to accept it.
Maybe it's time for local authorities to start up umbrella recycling schemes to return these instruments of torture to point of sale or, preferably, to bury them deep in landfill sites instead.
In and of itself, cork in landfills is not necessarily a bad thing, but increasing the use of fossil fuels to transport it negates the recycling effort. Corkfinger - Amorim, ReCORK America and cork recycling | Dr Vino's wine blog
It is a small island which has two million tourists a year and it is rapidly running out of landfill space for all their waste. The Sun
RECYCLE: Plastic recycling is beneficial because it decreases the amount of used plastics that end up in landfills and allows for fewer natural resourced being used to produce new plastic. Seattle's Green Bag Campaign
Most of the earth moved was landfill, leftovers from the 1960s metro digs.
The landfill tax was introduced in 1996 but was a negligible amount. Times, Sunday Times
Ironically, it is the newly-paved and sprawling five-lane thoroughfares clogged with sightseeing families and truckers laded down with ever more consumer items to choke our landfills, that has over the decades made Cadillac Ranch the Texan Stonehenge for sight-seers and graffiti enthusiasts eager to leave their mark of existence. G. Roger Denson: You Say You Want a Revolution. Well You Know, Art Can Cure You of That
And it has done it without being a blot on the landscape as it crosses a river and three peat bogs and cuts through a landfill site before squeezing its way past the town centre alongside a road, railway and canal.
And, you know, is it best to be incinerating that waste material or putting it in landfill, which is what's going on at the moment.
Speer said he was unaware that soldiers were searching landfills for scrap metal and discarded glass.
Refuse collectors are instructed only to collect rubbish left in the bins and no other bags, in an attempt to reduce landfill and encourage recycling.
Another surprise is the favorable treatment given to trash removal behemoth Waste Management, Inc. that is portrayed as a company spending major research dollars to make landfills better. Jennifer Schwab: The Business of Water, the Business of Trash
Meanwhile, even going on tonight, police are, kind of cordoned off a section of the landfill where the trash from Saturday morning, the day of the morning after Robert disappeared has been held, and they haven ` t really sifted through that yet, but they ` re keeping it there to the case. CNN Transcript Jul 31, 2009
How many readers have stood at the top of a landfill site and watched the dustcarts tipping their day's load of rubbish?
Solid wastes are either burnt or buried in landfill tips and fluid wastes are dumped in the sea.
A bioreactor landfill is a solid waste treatment method that uses enhanced microbiological processes to transform and stabilize the readily and moderately decomposable organic wastes.
The landfill tax was introduced in 1996 but was a negligible amount. Times, Sunday Times
In some parts of the country we are simply running out of landfill space. Times, Sunday Times
The world's largest landfill gas plant sits atop the Puente Hills landfill—the largest in the U.S.—which accepts trash from Los Angeles County.
A specialist marine rescue team used diggers to heave it on to the back of a truck and take it to a landfill site for disposal. The Sun
Mass-balance estimation of heavy metals and selected anions at a landfill receiving MSWI bottom ash and mixed construction wastes [An article from: Journal of Hazardous Materials] by J.K. Oygard Obama, the Chosen One
Some 8m tonnes of waste wood are consigned to landfill. Times, Sunday Times
The cost of landfilling construction and demolition waste has increased dramatically in recent years and this cost is expected to grow.
Putting medicines in rubbish destined for landfill is not a good idea either. Times, Sunday Times
The green question is especially vexing as both sides bandy scientific studies involving so many variables that the Natural Resources Defense Council considers the issue a wash when it comes to disposables in a landfill versus reusables in the laundry. Cloth or disposables? Half-century debate still on
The company recovers tyres from collectors and shreds them before selling the result as either lining for landfill sites or rubber crumb for all weather sports surfaces and carpet backing and underlay.
It is a small island which has two million tourists a year and it is rapidly running out of landfill space for all their waste. The Sun
This is because micro-organisms cannot survive the dry, oxygen-deprived conditions normally found in landfills.
Companies are also being asked to ban personal bins to reduce landfill and improve recycling. Times, Sunday Times
While many claim to send zero food waste to landfill, they are not necessarily sending it to feed the hungry. Times, Sunday Times
Save yourself a ton of money and the local landfill a ton of space, and buy reusable cloth diapers.
Some parts of the UK are running out of space for landfill sites and, where they do exist, they are understandably disliked by the local population.
This will avoid landfill and reduce our dependence on fossil fuels - exactly the sort of innovation we need to encourage. Times, Sunday Times
The electricity supply is sourced from a green provider, which makes power from landfill waste, sewage and wind. Times, Sunday Times
Now there are virtually no remaining empty lots left to develop in Battery Park City, largely built on top of landfill from the excavated from the World Trade Center site in the 1960s. Battery Park City Rolling On
Britain sends significantly less waste to landfill than a decade ago, but the total of 15 million tonnes last year is still unsustainable. Times, Sunday Times
Every year, billions of these clamshells and other foodservice containers made from petroleum-based foams end up in already overstuffed landfills.
Defra is also looking at whether it should ban metals, textiles and biodegradable waste from landfill too. Times, Sunday Times
Once produced, plastic water bottles clog landfills and litter the landscape, and toxins in the plastic can find their way into ground water.
The putrescible landfill materials have also been shown to be generating landfill gas in significant quantities.
The multiple disposal alternatives of NatureWorks biopolymer means it can play a key role in landfill diversion. Noble Juice PLA Packaging
Town halls claim the new approach is necessary to save cash spent dumping rubbish in landfill and to meet environmental targets. The Sun
Putting yard waste in landfills would be a fairly efficient method of carbon sequestration. The Waste of Recycling, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
Yet as more people separate glass, plastic and newspapers for recycling, markets have become so glutted that the price of these materials has plummeted, forcing some communities to pay to have "recyclables" carted to a landfill. Adam Smith Turns Green
Polystyrene's bulky foreverness accounts for one-quarter of our landfill waste. Simran Sethi: Life Cycle: Styrofoam: Mark of the Plastic Beast
The Exchequer already takes 32 per tonne of landfill waste. Times, Sunday Times
Thus parts of the city - dumps, landfills and junkyards - are both unpeopled and unclaimed, yet perversely organic in the manner in which junk simply accumulates and grows.
Some of the three million domestic refrigerators which are discarded every year in the UK used to be exported for re-use, re-conditioned or buried in landfill sites.
Gaston is looking to make landfill almost directly toward us, [Update: freudian slip, of course I meant "landfall" but the original is funny so I am leaving it] although it is not nearly as strong a storm as Charley was. Gaston | Evil Genius Chronicles
Among the archaeological remains even an industrial wastes landfill found its place.
Hence their scramble to divert domestic rubbish anywhere but landfill. Times, Sunday Times
That leaves nearly a third of all old tires to be landfilled, stockpiled (due to landfill restrictions or prohibitive disposal costs), or illegally dumped.
St. Marys operates its own licensed landfill, and before it is stored there, Schmidt explained that it is first put through a process known as "pugging" which pellitizes the CKD so that it will not blow around. Custom Search
The levy, payable by landfill site operators, was initially set at £2t - 1 for inert waste and £7t - 1 for putrescible waste, and raised £420m in its first year.
Because no appropriate regulations existed in 1969, there was no legal requirement to line the landfill site in order to prevent leakage, thus no butyl membrane was ever applied to the base of the site, as would be the requirement nowadays.
Churches in Bradford are set to benefit from a cash boost from the region's landfill sites.
This is the cheapest kind of novelistic landfill, invented musings meant to show a vapid fool on the brink of an awesome event. Trashing Teddy Kennedy
A member of staff confirmed that any bags of tin cans left anywhere other than in the skip would be destined for landfill.
The houses are built on the site of a former brick and tile works, where clay was extracted and the resulting hole filled with landfill.
But councils face huge financial penalties if they fail to meet EU targets to reduce landfill waste. Times, Sunday Times
Hazardous wastes should not be put out with normal household waste for landfill.
It suggests increased recycling, composting and diversion of waste away from landfill sites through alternative methods of waste management.
Landfills had filled, and there was nowhere to dump the dump trucks.
It is also crucial to the survival of the red listed reed bunting in north Wiltshire. The area on top of the old landfill site supports a good number of snipe and in recent years internationally important numbers of the scarce jack snipe.
But generally speaking, the availability of landfill space is more a matter of politics than geology.
Environmentalists say there is a high risk of pollution from the landfill site.
Spilling out from above that she's interviewed the household, the three anything the ancestry's way so he helps to be two landfills at often, electroplating his respective blanket while he first needs to obey phoebe. baby bjorn diaper bag. NASA and Cisco to make Planetary Skin - NASA Watch
Handsets and cartridges can take years to biodegrade - a single printer cartridge takes up to 1000 years to decompose - meaning that if dumped in landfill sites these items can pose a long term threat to the environment.
Some are retreaded, and the rest are dumped in landfills.
There's tumult all around, everything rising from bayside landfill. Red Room: Victoria Zackheim: Rats in San Francisco?
The present investigation is significant for three reasons: landfill crisis, limited effectiveness of government policies in the presence of market power, and theoretical and empirical contributions to the theory of oligopsony.
The dangerous poison is showing up everywhere: not just in smokestacks, lakes and oceans, fish, dental amalgams and vaccines, but also in Arctic sunrises, wildfire smoke, landfill emissions and homes.
The clearest indication of the council's failure to understand what is happening can be found in their claims regarding reduction in the amount of domestic refuse going to landfill.
That's why glass bottles have to be landfilled, and the same applies to tyres and computers.
The Government wants the use of environmentally-damaging landfill sites cut, and it has set targets across the country.
Each year the world throws away about 21 million tonnes of plastic waste, which is mostly buried in landfill sites. Times, Sunday Times
Although glass bottles are regularly recycled, there is plenty of plate glass from demolitions and renovations which ends up as landfill.
Great stuff - this can actually make a difference to their work, and I feel that is is actually worth scouring the house for things people have not used for a few weeks, in the secure knowledge that they will be put to good use and go to a good cause, rather than my previous sneaking suspicion that they would end upas landfill. Princess Alice Hospice
A steeply rising landfill tax is prompting businesses to rethink. Times, Sunday Times
The parcel is currently known as the multipurpose field at Independent Hill, and is leased by the Park Authority from the county landfill, which is operated by Prince William Public Works. News for InsideNova.com
Some carbon tetrachloride wafts up from inside landfills, says Kenneth Mitchell, chief of the EPA's air toxics program in its Southeast regional office in Atlanta. Toxic 'carbon tet' lingers in air near schools
Butterflies have benefited very strongly from landfill tax. Times, Sunday Times
Should the product end up in a landfill, it will biodegrade.
It is hoped that 1,600 tonnes of garden waste, which would normally find its way into landfill sites, will be turned into compost.
Mechanical contractors, through various unions, are providing free services to remove freon from flood-damaged appliances before they are taken to landfills.
Households in Wiltshire produce around 250,000 tonnes of household rubbish that currently goes into the county's landfill sites.
The asbestos has to then be put into large, approved bags before being taken away to a landfill tip to be buried underground by the contractors.
There are concerns about mercury leaching from the bulbs if they end up in landfills. 35 posts from April 2007
Out of all that waste, only 13.6 percent of it was recycled — the rest wound up in landfills or was shipped to developing nations. The Problem with E-Waste | Inhabitat - Green Design Will Save the World
We also look at a new National Packaging Covenant between industry, local councils and consumers, that should reduce the litter and waste to landfill created by packaging.
Promoting resource efficiency by reusing and recycling will help minimise the production and landfill of waste, creating huge benefits for the environment, economy and our well-being!" hoorayed Deputy European Programmes Minister Alun Davies. WalesOnline - Home
He said the biggest problem people had with landfills was the damage they caused to roads given the amount of trucks travelling to and from them.
All the leachate drains by gravity from the leachate collection layer to a sump, from which it is pumped out of the landfill for treatment and disposal.
The very same ubiquitous bottle-toppers pose a dangerous threat to oceans, birds and marine life when they are improperly disposed of and wind up in landfills or sent down storm drains. Aveda is Saving Oceans & Marine Life One Plastic Cap at a Time | Inhabitat
Although landfill space is needed for York in the foreseeable future, we expect recycling and composting to increase substantially at this site, reducing the amount of waste landfilled.
Organic matter in landfills is a source of methane. Taking Personal Responsibility for Climate Change
This damage to our environment can be a direct result of improper disposal of such waste materials in landfill sites or directly into our water supply i.e. flushing medicines down the toilet.
The 108 t of mercury that left the measurement/control devices sector in 1996 was split in half, 54 t each flowed into recycling and into dissipative (incineration and landfill) loss. Materials flow of mercury in the economies of the United States and the world
To meet its objective it has imposed an annually increasing tax on each tonne of rubbish sent to landfill. Times, Sunday Times
But it took the council a week to collect Mr Warner's bin, and he said that when the binmen did finally arrive they simply upended his green bin in to his black bin before taking it off to landfill.
Under the scheme, local authorities are set limits on the amount of biodegradable waste - like paper and garden refuse - they can dump in landfill sites.
I juggle my art making with time spent salvaging reusables from the landfill.
There are but two types of waste demanding collection, and disposal at landfill sites, or controversially lately at incineration plants.
Ironically, CDs and DVDs are made from recyclable materials, yet the vast majority end up in landfills or incinerators anyway.
The remaining 88% of our municipal waste was landfilled - often in small and inadequate facilities and that was a situation, Minister Cullen stressed, could not continue.
The green bin proposal is part of a larger plan to help Toronto divert 70 percent of garbage from landfills by 2010. 25 posts from May 2007
The company recovers tyres from collectors and shreds them before selling the result as either lining for landfill sites or rubber crumb for all weather sports surfaces and carpet backing and underlay.
Now WRG is seeking approval from the Environment Agency for its plan to landfill the site in three phases over the next 10 years at a rate of 250,000 tonnes a year.
TM: The whole notion is that, with the right technology, there's value to be had from what we call garbage, that is taken to landfill -- if you can capture, sort, clean, and reintroduce it to the supply chain. TreeHugger
Through lawsuits and protests, toxic landfills and dumps near the Hudson River were closed.
Continuing in "preen mode" (we don't do it very often), we note, however, that The Sunday Telegraph – like the Telegraph and Argus the day before – failed to pick up on the EU link, and thus failed to remind us that the bulk of the petty restrictions stem from the implementation of EU law on landfill and recycling. The stench of hypocrisy
It will trip off the tongue of First Minister and would-be eco-hero, Jack McConnell - and it will become a new battle cry for families who fear they are being poisoned by opencast mining and landfill dumps.
To meet its objective it has imposed an annually increasing tax on each tonne of rubbish sent to landfill. Times, Sunday Times
A steeply rising landfill tax is prompting businesses to rethink. Times, Sunday Times
In the area east of the Rock, Prince Rainier began a project twenty years ago to reclaim land from the sea by landfill and drainage.
That plant uses methane gas from the landfill to generate electricity.
Each season, thousands of these trees are dumped in a city wood landfill called Camp Small.
The 10th Street Overlook, an eight-acre hill created with landfill excavated from the construction of the Southeast-Southwest Freeway, could be the site of a multilevel parking facility, hidden from view by stores along Maine. The emerging Southwest: Transformation underway
Councils and council taxpayers are facing fines of up to 3 billion if we do not dramatically reduce the waste thrown into landfill. Times, Sunday Times
Defra is also looking at whether it should ban metals, textiles and biodegradable waste from landfill too. Times, Sunday Times
The Exchequer already takes 32 per tonne of landfill waste. Times, Sunday Times
He expected DIY shops and paint companies would donate unwanted stock, saving them the cost of paying for disposal at landfill sites.
The landfill will be open from 9am to 5pm, six days a week.
Operational waste will cease to go to landfill at the end of next year. Times, Sunday Times
Councils and council taxpayers are facing fines of up to 3 billion if we do not dramatically reduce the waste thrown into landfill. Times, Sunday Times
Traditionally this product is trucked to landfills or incinerated.
The world's libraries are already teeming with unread books - like literary landfill sites. Times, Sunday Times
Recycling would reduce the waste at our increasingly scarce landfill sites. The Residue Report - an action plan for safer food
EU and Irish policy is to recover energy from residual waste rather than landfilling it directly.
And it can help reduce the amount of waste sent to landfill each year. The Sun
These landfills are filling up and new ones can't be built.
The truck runs on methane gas produced from rotting landfill. The Sun
Ash from the process is captured in molten glass, producing an obsidian-like material that can be buried in landfills or used in construction materials. The Winners, Category by Category
There are 18 other taxes that hit businesses ranging from landfill tax and excise duty to insurance premium tax. Times, Sunday Times
Still, it's tomorrow's consumers who will have the greatest influence on the planet; on whether the landfill sites explode with all those sports bags discarded as untrendy long before the zippers break.
This means that all newspapers, cardboard and plastic drinks bottles can now be easily disposed of, instead of having these items dumped in landfill sites.
He said that over the last 130 years we had been somewhat neglectful of our environment, especially in the recycling of domestic waste and we could not continue with the situation of solely using landfill for this.
A spokesman for the campaigners said 40,000 tonnes of ash was transported to a local landfill in open-topped lorries each year and that toxic material contained in the ash meant it should never go into a landfill.
The level to Canadian and France's is about 0.82 hole in 11 single impermeable liner landfills.
Monies collected will be hypothecated (ring-fenced) for an Environment Fund - just like money collected from the Landfill Tax.
Residents and environmental scientists from the University at Buffalo believe that several chemical-laden landfill dumps and the Buffalo Crushed Stone Quarry, which surround the neighborhood in what some refer to as a “toxic triangle,” are predisposing Cheektowaga residents to autoimmune illnesses. The Autoimmune Epidemic
And it can help reduce the amount of waste sent to landfill each year. The Sun
A developer who got planning permission to build a golf course and then dumped several hundred thousand tonnes of landfill on the site only ever intended to create an illegal tip, it was claimed today.
The group sold 700 million plastic bags made from 100% post-consumer recycled material, diverting 7,000 tons of plastic from landfill.
Approximately 10 plastic bottles are used to create one pair of boardshorts, which helps reduce the impact we humans have on the environment, especially on landfill. Sustainable is Good Eco Products
Opponents also reasonably assert that U.S. and Michigan environmental controls on what's allowed to be landfilled are different and sometimes more stringent than Canadian standards.
To help to meet its obligations, the Government has increased taxes on sending waste to landfill. Times, Sunday Times
Five landfill sites will be open, but with skeleton staff only.
Each year Britain produces around 50 million waste tyres of which 63 per cent are recovered and used as retreads, fuel or for athletic track surfaces, while the rest are put into landfill sites.
He conceded the council accepted that maintenance work at the landfill was a likely contributory cause.
Waste management is in crisis because of decades of overdependence on landfills, opposition to incineration and little interest in recycling.
Landfill leachate contained high concentration of pollutants and great variation is compositionrate.
Shanks: 150 million of new plant capable of mechanically sorting waste will mean an end to landfill and rubbish burning for the waste manager. Times, Sunday Times
Bags do not biodegrade, meaning they clog landfills. Inc.com
From August 1, butchers and other meat traders will no longer be able to send surplus or unfit meat to be disposed of at landfill rubbish sites.

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