Thesaurus results for KITCHEN MIDDEN

kitchen midden

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Definition of kitchen midden

as in sanitary landfill

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Fiji has more than 330 islands, one sanitary landfill, and two municipal dumps.

— By Aryn Baker/Lautoka, Fiji , TIME, 3 July 2024
Other materials might need to be sent to a hazardous waste landfill that has double the plastic lining in place as a typical sanitary landfill in order to protect groundwater from anything that might otherwise leach into it.

— Justine Calma, The Verge, 3 Feb. 2024

Definition of sanitary landfill

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Being joyful there — in the Dominican Republic, where small shacks and houses pieced together by junkyard scraps sometimes hold families with over a dozen members — seems incomprehensible.

— Daniel Flick, AJC.com, 25 June 2026
Oh, and there’s also the plot following a community of junkyard pussycats competing in a talent show to decide who is allowed to die and be reborn in the Heaviside Layer — cat heaven.

— CT Jones, Rolling Stone, 23 June 2026

Definition of junkyard

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When selecting a car vacuum, Koukia suggests considering battery life, weight, suction power, dustbin size, and attachments.

— Maggie Horton, PEOPLE, 3 July 2026
Plus, its dock automatically empties the dustbin, washes and dries the mop pads, and can go up to 65 days between dustbin changes.

— Sheena Vasani, The Verge, 23 June 2026

Definition of dustbin

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The rest is composted; turned into animal feed, biofuels and other industrial products; sold at a deep discount shortly before its use-by date; or disposed of in landfills and incinerators.

— John Lowrey, The Conversation, 6 July 2026
Decomposing food can release hydrogen sulfide, a toxic gas synonymous with landfills and garbage.

— Tony Briscoe, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2026

Definition of landfill

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The Granada cemetery and midden, a discard mound, extended to some 25 acres originally.

— Andres Viglucci, Miami Herald, 30 June 2026
But this is the first time archaeologists have actually unearthed a midden with evidence that people added to it regularly for so many generations.

— ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 18 May 2026

Definition of midden

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His family went without answers for five decades — until genealogy advancements allowed investigators to crack the cold case by linking human remains found at a waste transfer station in Pima County to Sipfle's family, per KVOA and KOLD.

— Bailey Richards, PEOPLE, 31 May 2026
This transfer station caught fire a few years ago, smoldering for nearly two weeks and releasing toxic fumes into the air.

— Eleanor Beardsley, NPR, 27 May 2026

Definition of transfer station

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