What's the difference between a dump and a landfill?

Question

What's the difference between a dump and a landfill?

Answer 1

Dumps are where people go to dump their trash and a landfill is all of the trash taken and piled with other trash right n top of each other...hope this helped

Answer 2

Sand

a land fill gets covered with earth

and then they plant trees on top

a dump is open mountain of trash

but if this gets leveled and covered with earth later on .it becomes a land fill.

Answer 3

Today, a dump is properly referred to as a garbage transfer station.  So, as the name implies, it's a place to temporarily store waste before it is transferred to it's final destination- which could be a recycling facility, a composting facility, an incinerator, or a landfill.  Dumps are basically a place where all the garbage of the local area is collected, (and then dumped), sorted, and then shipped away.  Landfills are places where garbage is supposed to stay permanently.  They usually consist of many many layers of different materials to line the landfill (to avoid leakage) and then alternating layers of garbage and dirt.  When it is finished, they top it off with a cap of different materials, and then dirt.  Often times people will build parks or sports fields on top of finished landfills... creepy!  

Hope that helps!

Answer 4

I think that in a landfill the garbage is covered with dirt, and in a dump it isn't.

Answer 5

Historically folks call the place where unwanted items were placed a dump, almost universally individuals had 'dump sites' on their property where things were 'dumped'. These predate the creation of community “dumps” where the whole town(s) disposed of trash and unwanted items.

Here in New England there are many old "dump sites" on private property that contain a wealth of old items, with antique glass bottles being a classic recoverable item since they don’t decompose.

As municipal dumps matured here, often times there were tire piles, and metal piles where items could be recycled or sold for scrap by the communities.

Often these community/municipal dumps conducted ‘open burning’ where trash, garbage and other items were burnt by just lighting the pile on fire.  Over time open burning was outlawed and only clean wood and brush can now be burned on the “burn pile”

Around the time open burning stopped, many towns converted to “landfills” in the very crude sense, often just piling debris in a spot and covering it with soil.

Today’s modern sanitary landfills are carefully engineered facilities with barriers to prevent contamination of the groundwater, special covers to collect methane and special heavy equipment that compacts and layers household wastes with soil to form a very hard and compact disposal system.  They are most frequently combined with mandatory recycling to prevent useful products from ‘just being buried’ never to reused.  This technique of removing items from the waste stream greatly extends the life of landfills since often the NIMBY folks scream really loud at siteing a new landfill anywhere near occupied location.

Answer 6

Dump - TRASH location

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Land fill - CLEAN dirt trees anything that grows in nature or come out of the earth rocks etc. to end up at

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