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English translation: waste disposal area (site)


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Spanish term or phrase:depósito de basura
English translation:waste disposal area (site)
Entered by: Celeste Orellana Issaly
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12:05 Feb 8, 2008
Spanish to English translations [PRO]
Tourism & Travel
Spanish term or phrase: depósito de basura
Sentence: Ello requerirá de esfuerzos de organización y gastos, hábida cuenta de la distancia del lago respecto al pueblo de Aluminé, en el que se encuentra el espacio delimitado para el depósito de basura.
Celeste Orellana Issaly
Local time: 05:03
waste disposal area (site)
Explanation:
The Lake Rotoitipaku waste disposal area serves as one of New Zealand's most complex environmental waste sites. Located in Kawerau, Bay of Plenty, the site was originally a scenic lake, surrounded by sacred Maori land and thermal sinter terraces. In 1964, with the goals of increasing industry in the Bay of Plenty, an act of New Zealand Legislation (the Tasman Act) forced the original Maori landowners to either lease or sell the land to establish a waste disposal site for the newly created Tasman Pulp and Paper Mill. As a result Lake Rotoitipaku became the Tasman Pulp and Paper's general mill waste disposal area. Today the lake and thermal features are buried by more than 20 meters of waste
http://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2007AM/finalprogram/abstract_13193...

Solid Waste Disposal Area Permit Application Forms & Instructions
http://www.michigan.gov/deq/0,1607,7-135-3312_4123-9865--,00...

A number of environmental considerations have been taken into account in planning and designing the waste disposal area:

Identification of the best location for the tailings storage facilities, taking into account the status of the land with respect to ownership, geology, archaeological features, flora and fauna.
The design and construction of the embankments, considering short and long term structural stability.
http://www.marthamine.co.nz/waste_disposal.html
Selected response from:

Luisa Moura Almeida
Local time: 10:03
Grading comment
tks!
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
5 +10rubbish dump/tip
Carol Gullidge
3 +4waste disposal area (site)
Luisa Moura Almeida
5garbage depositxxxurielp
4 +1dumpster area
Smartranslators
4 +1landfill
Maria Elena Martinez
3 +1for garbage to be dumped
Noni Gilbert
3 +1garbage/trash collection area
Amanda Ménage
4Garbage dump
RichardDeegan


Discussion entries: 2





  

Answers


3 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
landfill


Explanation:
landfill

s. Basurero, área terrestre que se dedica especialmente para tirar la basura y que luego se cubre con capas de tierra

Babylon

Maria Elena Martinez
Netherlands
Local time: 10:03
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish
PRO pts in category: 12

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  neilmac: This sounds more like what will be required in the context.
2 hrs
  -> Thank you neilmac, I've just finished a book about environment where this term was used with that meaning.
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3 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
Garbage dump


Explanation:
Not a nice thing, but the nicest, clearest translation

RichardDeegan
Local time: 03:03
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  neilmac: somewhat informal In My Opinion, as the man with the wooden leg said, it's a matter...
2 hrs
  -> A spade doesn't always have to be a "steeltipped instrument for the technical execution of excavation tasks"
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4 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
dumpster area


Explanation:
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Do not overfill dumpster or fill with liquid. Do not rinse dumpster area. • No llenes en exceso el contenedor de basura con líquidos. ...
www.ocwatersheds.com/brochures/Food_Restaurant_Poster.pdf - Páginas similares

No Parking Dumpster Area Sign- [ Traduzca esta página ]Parking Sign Corner is your internet source for quality, reflective aluminum No Parking Dumpster Area signs. More than 1000 reflective, aluminum parking ...
www.parkingsigncorner.com/no-parking-dumpster-area-527.html - 16k - En caché - Páginas similares

Water Tower Realty- [ Traduzca esta página ]stack large items and discarded furniture neatly in dumpster area. remove any items in storage or these will be discarded and cleaning fee assessed against ...
www.wtrm.com/index.html?x=rservices&y=moveinout&a=a - 28k - En caché - Páginas similares

[DOC] PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSIONFormato de archivo: Microsoft Word - Versión en HTML
Commissioner Lester noted a concern with the dumpster area located across the access easement that would be utilized as a major road into the shopping ...
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Other unwanted stuff- [ Traduzca esta página ]If you take items to the dumpster area, put them in the designated areas, ... Whether you will take anything to the dumpster area yourself, ...
www.chem.purdue.edu/chemsafety/trash.htm - 32k - En caché - Páginas similares


Residents Questionnaire at Forest Creek Austin Apartments - SMI ...*Dumpster areas / Areas de los depósitos de basura. yes no. *Pest control / Control de insectos. yes no. *Management staff / Personal administrativo ...
www.smiforestcreekapts.com/questionnaire/index.html - 20k - En caché - Páginas similares


[PDF] Aplicación de Vendedores 2007 Julio 6-8, 2007Formato de archivo: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - Versión en HTML
Toda la basura debe ser descargada en el basurero (dumpster) situado en las instalaciones. de la misión de Ysleta. El depósito sera rembolzado al terminar ...
www.ysletamission.org/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/spanish-ve... - Páginas similares


PDF] Prevención y control de derrames Capacitación e instrucción Use ...Formato de archivo: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - Versión en HTML
depósitos de agua de beber. Todas las cañerías interiores son parte de un sistema .... Mantenga cerrada la tapa de los contenedores de basura o Dumpsters. ...
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Smartranslators
Local time: 10:03
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish
PRO pts in category: 64

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Teri Szucs
17 mins
  -> Gracias Teri

neutral  neilmac: Creo que en este caso se trata mas de lo que en España se llama un vertedero, no simplemente una zona de contenedores (dumpsters)
2 hrs
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4 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +1
garbage/trash collection area


Explanation:
Could this be it?

Amanda Ménage
France
Local time: 10:03
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Teri Szucs
16 mins

neutral  neilmac: Sounds too local and small-scale if I understand the context correctly
2 hrs
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4 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +10
rubbish dump/tip


Explanation:
both are in the trusty Collins

Carol Gullidge
United Kingdom
Local time: 09:03
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 168

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Noni Gilbert: Ah, while I was writing on the other interpretation you confirmed my British translation!
4 mins
  -> thanks, Noni! and I thought you were UK British!

agree  Lisa McCarthy: I like rubbish dump
14 mins
  -> thanks, Lisa!

agree  liz askew: Sure is.
18 mins
  -> thanks, liz!

agree  Robert Copeland: Yes!
19 mins
  -> thanks, Robert!

agree  Robert West: Absolutely
44 mins
  -> thanks, Robert!

agree  AllegroTrans
46 mins
  -> thanks, Allegro!

agree  Victoria Burns:
1 hr
  -> thanks, Victoria!

agree  Gacela20
1 hr
  -> thanks, Gacela!

agree  Sandra Holt: Yes, I'd definitely go for "rubbish dump".
2 hrs
  -> thanks, Sandra! .. rubbish or garbage dump, depending on the target audience..

neutral  neilmac: Everyone seems a bit peevish today, but nevertheless I'm sticking with with "landfill" or Luisa's excellent suggestion (I've been doing Euro blab all week:)
3 hrs
  -> Robert gives "deposito de basura -> rubbish dump, tip". Where did you get the idea of size or "unofficial" that you mentioned earlier? And landfill is "entierro de basuras" while landfill site is "vertadero ..."

agree  Laura Rodriguez
3 hrs
  -> thanks, Laura!
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5 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
garbage deposit


Explanation:
:)

xxxurielp
Argentina
Local time: 05:03
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish
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7 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +1
for garbage to be dumped


Explanation:
You can actually read this in two different ways: either that it is referring to the dump (*rubbish dump/tip* if you're in the UK), or that it is the act of depositing the garbage, which is what I translate above.

Noni Gilbert
Local time: 10:03
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 124

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Martin Boyd: Good point, Noni - I agreee that the phrasing suggests it is the act... could also use "for the dumping of garbage".
1 hr
  -> Nice to be agreeeed with! Thanks.
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24 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +4
waste disposal area (site)


Explanation:
The Lake Rotoitipaku waste disposal area serves as one of New Zealand's most complex environmental waste sites. Located in Kawerau, Bay of Plenty, the site was originally a scenic lake, surrounded by sacred Maori land and thermal sinter terraces. In 1964, with the goals of increasing industry in the Bay of Plenty, an act of New Zealand Legislation (the Tasman Act) forced the original Maori landowners to either lease or sell the land to establish a waste disposal site for the newly created Tasman Pulp and Paper Mill. As a result Lake Rotoitipaku became the Tasman Pulp and Paper's general mill waste disposal area. Today the lake and thermal features are buried by more than 20 meters of waste
http://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2007AM/finalprogram/abstract_13193...

Solid Waste Disposal Area Permit Application Forms & Instructions
http://www.michigan.gov/deq/0,1607,7-135-3312_4123-9865--,00...

A number of environmental considerations have been taken into account in planning and designing the waste disposal area:

Identification of the best location for the tailings storage facilities, taking into account the status of the land with respect to ownership, geology, archaeological features, flora and fauna.
The design and construction of the embankments, considering short and long term structural stability.
http://www.marthamine.co.nz/waste_disposal.html


Luisa Moura Almeida
Local time: 10:03
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese, Native in DutchDutch
PRO pts in category: 4
Grading comment
tks!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  CeciliaMontano: Sí, sí... me gusta más que "garbage" o "rubbish" :-)
54 mins
  -> Thanks, Cecilia!

agree  neilmac: A lovely euphemism for what we call "landfill site" in UK :) Europe would love this ;)
2 hrs
  -> Thanks, Neil! ;)

agree  Ximena Novoa: yo siempre lo he conocido como "waste disposal site"
2 hrs
  -> Thanks, Ximena!

agree  Deborah Lockett: en este contexto "el depósito de basura" funciona como un verbo y no como un sustantivo, y esta opción es un equivalente directo en este sentido (area for disposing of waste)
4 hrs
  -> Thanks, Deborah!
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