Landfill definition

Landfill means a disposal facility or part of a facility where hazardous waste is placed in or on land and which is not a pile, a land treatment facility, a surface impoundment, an underground injection well, a salt dome formation, a salt bed formation, an underground mine, a cave, or a corrective action management unit.
Landfill means an area of land or an excavation in which wastes are placed for permanent disposal, and which is not a land application unit, surface impoundment, injection well, or waste pile.
Landfill means a disposal facility or part of a facility at which solid waste is placed in or on land and which is not a land treatment facility.

Examples of Landfill in a sentence

  • The Ministry of Environment and Forest (MoEF), Government of India (GoI), has formulated the Municipal Solid Wastes (Management and Handling) Rules, 2000 / Solid Waste Management Rules 2016 (“MSW Rules”), which makes it mandatory for every municipal authority to implement a scientific solid waste management system wherein the MSW is collected in an efficient way with source segregation and the same is duly processed and the residual inert/ non-biodegradable solid wastes disposed in a Sanitary Landfill.


More Definitions of Landfill

Landfill means a disposal area that is a sanitary landfill.
Landfill means a landfill as defined in section 11504 that is licensed under part 115.
Landfill means a disposal facility or part of a facility at which solid waste is permanently placed in or on land including facilities that use solid waste as a component of fill.
Landfill means a disposal facility or part of a facility
Landfill means a disposal facility or part of a facility where solid waste is placed in or on land, and which is not a land treatment facility, a surface impoundment, or an injection well.
Landfill means a sanitary landfill facility, as defined in rules adopted under section 3734.02 of the Revised Code, that is licensed under section 3734.05 of the Revised Code.
Landfill. – means any solid waste facility for the disposal of solid waste on or in the land for the purpose of permanent disposal. Such facility is situated, for the purpose of this rule, in the county where the majority of the spatial area of such facility is located.