Helen Mirren

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.

British Actress

Hilary Benn

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.

British Politician

Robert Bilott

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.

American Lawyer

Paul Gillmor

The current system punishes communities which make the investment in creating landfills, only to have them filled by states which refuse to adequately address their waste issues.

American Politician

Robin Givhan

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.

American Editor

James Blake

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.

American Athlete

Jeanne Marie Laskas

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.

American Writer

Park Won-soon

Seoul will build more resource recovery facilities and establish new recycling facilities with the aim of achieving zero landfills of domestic waste.

South Korean Politician

Janine Benyus

Glue actually contaminates recyclables. We throw things in a landfill just because they're glued together.

Jaime Lerner

We can't have landfills forever, and we can't ask others to accept our trash.

Brazilian Politician

The term often refers to a designated area where local waste is managed.

Location Specific

'Landfill' can imply environmental concerns, such as pollution.

Negative Connotation

It specifically means the physical space for waste, not the waste itself.

Physical Space

The process is criticized for potential harm to land and groundwater.

Environmental Impact

Increasing focus on reducing landfill processes in favor of greener methods.

Alternative Solutions

Some governments impose taxes to discourage landfill use due to its environmental effects.

Tax Implications

 We send our trucks out at the end of the day, they help the panhandlers put into the truck the material they've picked up during the day, and we take it to the landfill. I'm lucky that I have city employees that are willing to work side by side with our panhandlers. They're lifting up our city while lifting up their lives.

A practical way to help...

 jobsite throwaways and this stuff goes in the earth and it stays there forever as a home builder it always bothered me how much material went to waste so the concept of taking stuff out of the landfill giving it a second life it's just fascinating and now we're thinking like what if we can make this stuff and

How Do You Make a...

 papers when you recycle them the fibers get shorter and shorter and we finally landfill them there's a group in Sweden that's learning how to take those tiny fibers and put them back together the way at rebuild cellulose elegant structure there are no dyes in this picture it's all structural color and

Creating a Bio-Industrial...

 since insect farms can be small scale, highly productive, and yet relatively inexpensive to keep. Insects can also be turned into more sustainable food for livestock and can be reared on organic waste, like vegetable peelings, that might otherwise just end up rotting in landfills. Feeling hungry yet?

Should we eat bugs? -...

 Food is not wasted by consumers in low-income countries which struggle to feed their population. In the developed world, instead, after food leaves the farm, most food is wasted at the end of the supply chain by markets and consumers, and wasted food ends up in the landfill where it emits methane

100 solutions to reverse...

 This energy intensive process breaks down the plastics woven into each pair, releasing microplastics into the water and, perhaps most ironic of all, shortening the jean’s lifespan. Like most waste, discarded jeans end up in landfills, where their decomposition releases methane gas,

Why do your jeans wear...

 to local farms, hungry for rich fertilizer. So, instead of wasting money, dumping wasted food in landfills, we can remake waste into an asset, putting it back into our food system to make it more sustainable, all with the help of the humble worm, the tiny organism that can help us

Vermicomposting: How...

 So she is the hero. And that's what that landfill looks like, ladies and gentlemen, and it's solid oil and gas. So there's huge value potentially locked up in there that the world's ragpickers would, if they could, make a living from. But why can't they?

A radical plan to end...

 each year over a hundred billion items of clothing are produced globally using thousands of different chemicals yet three out of five items end up in landfill within 12 months

Can Fashion Be...

 Disposable diapers made life easy for parents, but they killed off diaper delivery services. And do we want landfills overwhelmed by dirty diapers?