Open landfill открытая мусорная свалка

11. dustbin (British English) | garbage can / container (American English) | trash can / bin (American English) [ countable ] a large container outside your house, used for holding waste until it is taken away мусорный контейнер / бак;мусорный ящик: The average family in Europe throws as much as £20 worth of reusable materials into its dustbin each year. | A bomb planted in a garbage can exploded early today. | The second blast went off near a trash bin in the parking lot. | We recently replaced some large plastic barrels used as trash cans with more attractive station furnishings.

12. dustbin bag / liner (British English) | garbage / trash bag (American English) | trash can liner (American English) [ countable ] a plastic bag put inside a dustbin to hold the waste and keep the container clean мусорный мешок: It was a black plastic dustbin bag.

13. (litter / rubbish / waste paper) bin | litter basket (British English) [countable] a container for litter in a public place ящик для мусора; мусорный бачок, мусоросборник: He stuffed the newspapers into a litter bin and headed down the street. | Two stolen paintings have been found dumped in a rubbish bin. | Lily put them, unhesitatingly, in the waste paper bin.

14. litter bug | litterbug (informal) | litter lout (British English) [ countable ] someone who leaves paper, cans etc on the ground in a public place, making it untidy: It would have been more honest to say that I thought the litterbug needed a lesson.

15. to dump | to tip (British English) [ transitive ] to get rid of waste material by taking it somewhere and leaving it there сбрасывать; выбрасывать; вываливать, сваливать; избавляться: The sign by the side of the road said "No tipping";.

to dump / tip sth: As it becomes more expensive to dump dangerous waste, so the economic advantages of shredding deteriorate. | The polluted waste is often dumped, making the surrounding land infertile. | No rubbish to be tipped here. | Residents are concerned that toxic waste may be dumped. | This piece of land was used for the purpose of tipping rubbish.

to dump / tip sth at sea // in / into a sea / ocean / river: The government declared that it did not dump radioactive waste at sea. | The convention establishes the principle that nothing that is harmful to human health and marine life can be dumped at sea. | On Thursday delegates approved a resolution calling for a two-year ban on dumping radioactive wastes in the sea. | A million tonnes of untreated sewage is dumped into the sea. | Toxic waste is being dumped into the ocean. | A man who's accused of dumping highly toxic waste into a river has been remanded on bail. | A lot of waste is being tipped into the sea.

to dump / tip sth in a mine / mineshaft / landfill (site / tip) / quarry // at a site: The rest is dumped in landfill sites. | Solid wastes are either burnt or buried in landfill tips and fluid wastes are dumped in the sea. | He says in the 1950's there were plans to dump nuclear waste in mineshafts. | Which is better, to incinerate the rubbish from our towns or to tip it into disused quarries? | According to Greenpeace, 1,100 tons of munitions were dumped at the site in 1991 and 8,400 tons thus far this year.

to dump / tip sth on a beach / along a coast: It was the Mirror too which exposed the massive government cover-up last year over the poisonous waste being dumped on our beaches. | Over 150,000 tonnes of waste are dumped annually along the coastline.

to dump / tip sth in / near / next to sth: People who want to get rid of old cars sometimes dump them in the woods. | Find out what waste is being dumped near your home and campaign against it. | In one city, contaminated waste was dumped next to a shopping centre.

16. to litter (up) [ transitive; intransitive ] to leave waste paper, cans etc on the ground in a public place, making it untidy сорить, мусорить: Heaps of garbage littered the grounds. | Glass from broken bottles litters the pavement. | The streets were littered with smashed vehicles and glass. | The streets were littered with rubbish.

17. wasteland | waste ground [ uncountable; countable ] an unattractive area of land that is empty or has old ruined buildings, factories etc on it and, as a result, cannot be used for anything пустошь, пустырь; бросовая земля: These plants grow on wasteland, beside tracks and roads in woods and hedges. | What the mass of urban wasteland needs lies between these extremes. | The waste ground is separated from a park by some old fencing which is in need of repair.