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Glue actually contaminates recyclables. We throw things in a landfill just because they're glued together.
Janine Benyus / Science Writer
Glue
Landfill
Throw
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'Landfill' by Daughter has calming, rich tones that are only improved upon by the gorgeous voice of Daughter.
Ben Lovett /
Daughter
Calming
Gorgeous
Rich
Voice
Improved
Landfill
Tones
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I had always suspected that one could build an entire house from what went into the landfill, and, sure enough, it's true.
Dan Phillips /
Landfill
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I saw 28 Days. I don't remember rehab being like a day camp or being that funny. Rehab is a dumping ground. It's a big landfill.
Charlie Sheen / Actor
Funny
Rehab
Remember
Saws
Days
Camp
Dumping
Saw
Landfill
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I love great locations in movies, and I couldn't believe I'd never seen a landfill on screen before. It was the most haunting place.
Lucy Walker / Film Producer
Believe
Haunting
Location
Love Great Movies
Landfill
Locations
Screen
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I just wish that more people would be welcoming to dogs and cats so they didn't have so many that got killed and had to be thrown in a landfill.
Virgil Goode / Virginia State Senator
Thrown
People More Wish
Cats
Dogs
People Wish More
Landfill
More People
Welcoming
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One of the ways a landfill engineer anywhere in the world earns bragging rights is if he can pour himself a glass of the leachate from his landfill and drink it.
Jeanne Marie Laskas / Writer
Bragging
Glass
Landfill
Pour
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It really surprises me that people in this day and age still write such busy music and fill up every space with layer upon layer of sound... it's like musical landfill.
James Blake /
Busy
Musical
Sound
Day And Age
Fill
Landfill
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Films go into vaults, art into museums, and music into halls of fame. Most fashion is worn for a few seasons and off-loaded into the recycling bin or, worse, some landfill.
Robin Givhan / Fashion Editor
Halls
Museums
Recycling
Seasons
Worn
Bin
Landfill
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I was raised in a house on the far South Side of Chicago, in a development erected on a landfill made from slag and other industrial by-products a few years after World War II.
Scott Spencer / Author
Chicago
Development
Raised
Slag
World War Ii
Side
Industrial
Landfill
South Side
World War
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Gramacho is the last landfill that allows people in. Brazil is the leading nation in recycling due to its poverty. There are people there surviving from what they find in the garbage.
Vik Muniz / Artist
Brazil
Garbage
Poverty
Recycling
Surviving
Due
Landfill
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I think if we're going to have to landfill trash, and I think we basically have to, we might as well get the upside for it and dedicate that upside to improving the environment in so many different ways.
Ed Rendell / Former Governor Of Pennsylvania
Different
Different Ways
Improving
Might
Thinking
Trash
Dedicate
Landfill
So Many Different Ways
Upside
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The Puente Hills Landfill, about sixteen miles east of downtown Los Angeles, serves 5 million people in seventy-eight California cities, one of six landfills operated by the Sanitation Districts of L.A. County.
Jeanne Marie Laskas / Writer
California
Cities
County
Downtown
Hills
Los Angeles
Miles
Sanitation
Sixteen
Angeles
Districts
Landfill
Los
Million People
Operated
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Food redistribution is one of the best win-win solutions for food waste avoidance. Food companies can often save money by donating food rather than paying the £80 or so per tonne in landfill tax and disposal costs.
Tristram Stuart / Author
Avoidance
Solutions
Waste
Win Win
Disposal
Per
Landfill
Paying
Redistribution
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Tile is going to the landfill by the metric ton. All we have to do it gather it up, glue it down to the floor and grout it. Then you have a tile floor, and not just any tile floor: it's a mosaic of your own choosing.
Dan Phillips /
Glue
Choosing
Floor
Gather
Landfill
Metric
Mosaic
Ton
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I think a moratorium probably is legal, and we should probably for a short period of time impose a moratorium so that we don't permit any additional landfill permits for the time being, so we don't exacerbate the problem.
Ed Rendell / Former Governor Of Pennsylvania
Legal
Additional
Period
Exacerbate
Impose
Landfill
Moratorium
Short Period
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And secondly, I would impose a significant state landfill tipping fee and use that tipping fee to fund the billion dollar bond issue that I want to create to produce the funds for all of the environmental challenges that we just went over.
Ed Rendell / Former Governor Of Pennsylvania
Environmental
Fund
Produce
Significant
Tipping
Billion
Bond
Dollar
Fee
Impose
Issue
Landfill
Secondly
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And in my world, when I was dealing with this for our chemical company clients, you had lists of regulated hazardous materials, and things were permitted. And if you had a landfill and you had a permit, you had to comply with certain limits.
Robert Bilott /
Clients
Materials
Permit
Chemical
Comply
Hazardous
Landfill
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We face a simple choice. Either we go back to the days when everything was disposable and landfill dumps consumed our countryside at an increasing pace, or we recognise that we have limited resources and need to use them wisely and sustainably.
Hilary Benn / British Politician
Consumed
Countryside
Disposable
Limited Resources
Pace
Recognise
Resources
Simple
Face
Days
Choice
Either
Increasing
Landfill
Limited
Wisely
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I'll tell you what me scares me is plastic. Plastic bags and plastic bottles and these things. Why does my water have to be in a bloody plastic bottle? The landfill and the ocean. And I don't know, I'm just terrified with the proliferation of plastic.
Helen Mirren / Actor
Ocean
Bags
Bloody
Bottles
Plastic
Proliferation
Scare
Terrified
Water
Me Know Why
Bottle
Landfill
Scares
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Supermarkets didn't even want to talk to me about how much food they were wasting. I'd been round the back. I'd seen bins full of food being locked and then trucked off to landfill sites, and I thought, surely there is something more sensible to do with food than waste it.
Tristram Stuart / Author
Locked
Sensible
Waste
Round
Landfill
Sites
Surely
Wasting
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In Japan, Taiwan and South Korea, the government in a matter of years has put a lot of energy behind recycling food waste as livestock feed. It's environmentally friendly, it provides cheap livestock feed for the farmers in those parts of the world, and it avoids sending the food waste to landfill.
Tristram Stuart / Author
Government
Energy
Farmers
Friendly
Japan
Livestock
Recycling
South
South Korea
Taiwan
Waste
Behind
Cheap
Feed
Environmentally
Landfill
Parts
Provides
Sending
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