1851 H. Mayhew II. 216/1 The dust-yards must not be confounded with the ‘night-yards’.
1854 C. Dickens ii. ix. 232 Her father was usually sifting and sifting at his parliamentary cinder-heap in London..and was still hard at it in the national dust-yard.
1904 27 Sept. 8/2 In a few odd corners of London there still exist dustyards in which the refuse of the great city is sifted and sorted.