slag-heap

It's concerned mainly with a father (Viggo Mortensen) and son (Kodi Smit-McPhee) slogging across a slag-heap American landscape after the planet has suffered an unexplained apocalypse that killed the flora, the fauna and most of the spectrum (though the sickly light from a blighted sun does manage to produce one wan rainbow).

'Social Network': Password Is Perfection Joe Morgenstern 2010

Most of the flora and fauna that existed there for thousands or millions of years can no longer survive in the slag-heap once it's been "reclaimed" by invasive species.

Our mountains are not for sale 2009

Also, there is a lifeless moon orbiting this slag-heap in case you get lost.

Darth Sidious: People Person 2005

He made a big splash, but also amassed a slag-heap of debt--so much ballast after the old "new economy" bubble popped.

Faces Of The Week: Jan. 16-20Forbes Faces Of The Week: Jan. 16-20 Forbes.com staff 2006

He made a big splash, but also amassed a slag-heap of debt--so much ballast after the old "new economy" bubble popped.

Sweet Sorrow? Levy To Delist Vivendi From NYSE 2006

He made a big splash, but also amassed a slag-heap of debt--so much ballast after the old "new economy" bubble popped.

Faces Of The Week: Jan 16-20 Forbes Faces Of The Week: Jan 16-20 Forbes.com staff 2006

Baudelaire, for instance, writing a poem about a slag-heap.

The Road to Wigan Pier 2004

The driver took no notice, He drove up to the top of the slag-heap, uncoupled the trucks, and ran the engine back to the pit, presently returning with a fresh string of trucks.

The Road to Wigan Pier 2004

Even when a slag-heap sinks, as it does ultimately, only an evil brown grass grows on it, and it retains its hummocky surface.

The Road to Wigan Pier 2004

For an hour the pageant wound through the dejected street, pursuing neither method nor set route, till it came to a deserted slag-heap, selected for the speech-making.

The Inn of Tranquillity: Studies and Essays 2004