Other forms: landfills
Landfill is the large pit where a city buries its rubbish. Go to landfill, landfill sites, divert waste from landfill.
Modern landfill sites are lined, capped and vented, because rotting waste produces methane and leachate — and the methane is often captured and burned for electricity. Landfill tax in Britain has made burying rubbish steadily more expensive on purpose. The phrase goes to landfill is the standard way of saying something is not recycled. Note landfill as an adjective, and that the word is a euphemism for a hole full of rubbish.
1nounlandfillA site where rubbish is buried, or the practice of burying it.
“About a third of it still goes to landfill.”
synonyms: dump, tip
landfill is a waste site.
Also accepted in games: dump
From land + fill.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA