landfill Label
Language
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DefGEMET: The oldest method of waste disposal for the solid matter discarded in the domestic dustbin, along with the packaging material and paper from high street shops and offices. Landfill sites are usually disused quarries and gravel pits. When they were filled, previous practice was to cover them up with soil and forget about them. ... Landfill sites can be designed to be bioreactors, which deliberately produce methane, gas as a source of biofuel or alternative energy. ... (Source: WRIGHT)
Part of speech
Noun (male)Base form
landfillInflectionals
landfills, landfill, land-fill, land-fillsCompound from
Compound in
- EU Landfill Directive
- Landfill Directive
- Landfill Ordinance
- Ordinance on Landfills and Long-Term Storage Facilities
- Ordinance pertaining to the recovery of waste at surface landfills and amending the Commercial Wastes Ordinance
- Recovery of Waste at Surface Landfills Ordinance
- domestic waste landfill
- landfill base sealing
- landfill bottom liner
- landfill capping
- landfill closing
- landfill closure
- landfill covering
- landfill degasification
- landfill leachate
- landfill mining
- landfill remediation
- landfill sealing
- landfill surface sealing
- landfilling of waste
- municipal waste landfill
- old landfill
- old landfill site
- underground landfill
- underground sealing of landfill
- utilisation of landfill gas
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GEMETID4621
Change Notes
Initial version
on 2007-02-25
Last change
Barbara Fock on 2019-11-06
