waste dump
Trash disposal site
A waste dump is a site where refuse, garbage, or unwanted materials are deposited and left.
The term applies to both official facilities and unauthorized locations where people illegally discard trash: The company was fined for using the riverbank as a waste dump.
Unlike a landfill, which implies some management, waste dump often suggests a less regulated or haphazard accumulation.
- sanitary landfillRegulated waste disposal site
- landfillWaste burial ground
- garbageDiscarded waste material
- garbage truckVehicle collecting household waste
- trashDiscarded worthless material
trash heap · rubbish · junk · heap · garbage pile · pile · open pit · stench · rotting · scavengers · pick through · bulldozer · seagulls · toxic · leachate · methane · compost · disposal
- eyesoreseyesore, blight, garbage, trash, junk
- man-made terraincanal, dike, levee, embankment, landfill
- Surface Miningopen pit mining, strip mining, open pit, strip mine, quarry
- mininggold, mines, gold mines, mine, coal
- Nuclear SitesHiroshima, Chernobyl, Nagasaki, Fukushima, Three Mile Island
waste dumpnature preserve
Protected natural habitat area
wildlife sanctuary · conservation area · pristine wilderness · national park · green space
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