The word "landfilled" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to the act of sending waste to landfill, usually for disposal. For example: "Much of the city's waste is landfilled in the nearby area."
Only noncontainerized solid, nonflowing waste material can be stored in a new waste pile, and the material must be landfilled when the size of the pile becomes unmanageable.
"We're the first rental company to commit to zero waste for tires," Rich Broome, a Hertz spokesman said, adding, "No Hertz tire will ever be landfilled again".
Over time, landfilled TVs, computers and electrical appliances leach poisons such as mercury, arsenic and cadmium into the soil and groundwater.
The highest shares of municipal waste landfilled were recorded in Romania (99% of waste treated), Malta (87%), Croatia (85%), Latvia (84%) and Greece (82%), and of incinerated municipal waste in Denmark and Sweden (both 52%), the Netherlands (49%), Belgium (42%), Luxembourg (36%), Germany and Austria (both 35%), Finland (34%) and France (33%).
Some travelled huge distances (not just to China, but to India and Taiwan), others shorter distances (Cheshire, Kent) only to be landfilled or incinerated there.
While the bulk of a typical car or truck – the steel – has obvious resale value and is stripped and resold fairly easily, the remaining melange of plastic, fiber, rubber and non-ferrous metals known collectively as "shredder waste" is much more difficult to reclaim and is typically landfilled.
The future of UK government hopes to use local landfill sites to dispose of huge quantities of low-level nuclear waste will come under scrutiny today with the opening of a planning inquiry into the first such case.
This diverts resources to landfill and gives rise to greenhouse gas emissions, because the rotting food produces methane that is not captured and adds to the concentration of carbon in the air.
Welcome to the US border town of Nogales, home to the largest fresh-produce gateway into the US – a Big Food superhighway where convoys of vast trucks roll in from Mexico, sometimes dumping mountains of crops into landfill if, for example, the price of Florida tomatoes suddenly drops.
A dystopian hinterland where terror reigns, and everyone is a potential suspect and afraid of ending up in the "Landfill" – a place of unspeakable horror.
The AI Group also notes that the "safeguards mechanism" – which is supposed to ensure that industrial emissions do not rise and cancel out any reductions bought primarily from avoiding tree-clearing and capturing gases from landfill – would need "substantial amendment" if it was to help reduce greenhouse emissions.
