Landfills in example sentence

While the value of the metals in each phone is low, the massive number of phones that end up in landfills or incinerators – roughly 135 million in the United States alone in 2010, according to the Environmental Protection Agency – amounts to hundreds of millions of dollars of wasted resources annually.

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In the US, only 15 percent of the total textile and garment waste that's generated each year ends up being donated or recycled in some way, which means that the other 85 percent of textile and garment waste end up in landfills every year.

This means that almost 13 million tons of clothing and textile waste end up in landfills every year in just the United States alone.

It was ending up in landfills.

At the moment, we have about 1.3 billion tons of material every year going into landfills.

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