kitchen midden

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for kitchen midden
Noun
  • 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
Noun
  • Joe adds that Christopher was always going to die in the end (although a quick moment in a junkyard seems to imply that Christopher's consciousness in the Cosmo bot somehow survived).
    Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 14 Mar. 2025
  • In the video, Wheeler sings to his daughter, who was born around the time of the car crash, from a car junkyard.
    Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 21 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • According to the brand, the dustbin can hold up to 60 days’ worth of debris.
    Clara McMahon, People.com, 4 Mar. 2025
  • Our reviewer loved the fact that this station doesn't just automatically empty the dustbin, but also washes and dries the mops, and refills the water tank.
    Gabriela Vatu, PCMAG, 23 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • To date, the site has produced 200 tons of biochar, diverting 800 tons of waste from landfill, said company founder Abdulaziz bin Redha.
    Tom Page, CNN Money, 30 Mar. 2025
  • Meanwhile, in Europe, many sports organizations have long made zero waste the standard, diverting 100% of waste from landfill through a combination of reduction, recycling, composting, food recovery, energy-from-waste, and rainwater and groundwater recovery.
    Claire Poole, Forbes.com, 30 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The midden is a testament to the volume of shellfish eaten by Hoabinhians.
    Smithsonian Magazine, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Feb. 2025
  • This and oral reports evidenced that two even larger middens once existed nearby.
    Smithsonian Magazine, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Baltimore’s 2020 Recycling and Solid Waste Management Master Plan determined that eliminating WTE from Baltimore’s waste management process would cost taxpayers roughly $100 million to expand local landfill space and build transfer stations to truck more local waste out of state.
    Mary Urban, Baltimore Sun, 6 Mar. 2025
  • Projects that increase transfer stations and expand curbside recycling programs—plus any projects that make those two tasks cheaper—are prioritized as well.
    Alexandra Harrell, Sourcing Journal, 3 Sep. 2019
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“Kitchen midden.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/kitchen%20midden. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.

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