Tag:landuse=landfill
 landuse = landfill
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A site for permanent or long term storage of waste materials. 
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- Main article: Waste Processing
A site for permanent or long term storage of waste materials. Also known as a tip, dump, rubbish dump or dumping ground and historically as a midden.
Materials are sometimes buried or covered, sometimes simply piled.
Sites might be maintained even after closure, the gas from rotting processes might be harvested.
The tag should be used as long as the characteristics as a landfill are recognisable.
If a site with inactive waste (e.g. construction rubble) is reused, e.g. for recreational purposes, the lifecycle prefixes can be used to indicate the buried waste underground. The landuse=* tag can reflect the current use.
How to map
Draw the outline 
of the landfill and tag it with landuse=landfill.
To distinguish between:
- Sanitary landfill
- When it's formally established, official, controlled, made according to health and environmental standards, use just landuse=landfill.
- Unofficial dumping grounds
- When it's informal, unofficial, uncontrolled, may be polluting waterways and underground waters, soil, etc. Use landuse=landfill + informal=yes. (As proposed in tagging list).
- Nuclear dump or cache
- landfill:waste=nuclear
- Retired/capped landfills
- abandoned:landuse=landfill if the landfill is abandoned and no longer visible (for example, capped and covered with grass or trees, re-used for recreation or building ground)
- landuse=landfill + disused=yes for landfills which are still present on the ground, but are no longer in operation. They might be maintained, rotting gas might getting harvested.
Examples
Deposition of hot slag
Toxic waste landfill
Mining waste
Landfill in the process of getting capped
Capped landfill without natural covering, with foil cover for gas harvesting
Capped, visible landfill with natural covering
Capped, visible landfill with minor re-use for solar power
Capped, visible landfill with partial cover for gas harvesting
Gas harvesting station on a domestic waste landfill
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Related tags
- amenity=waste_basket - A single small container for depositing garbage that is easily accessible for pedestrians.
- amenity=waste_disposal - A medium size disposal bin, typically for bagged up household or industrial waste. May be in the street, but not primarily for use by passing pedestrians.
- amenity=recycling + recycling_type=container: A container that accepts waste for recycling.
- amenity=recycling + recycling_type=centre: A centre/facility that accepts waste for recycling.
- amenity=waste_transfer_station: A location that accepts, consolidates and transfers waste in bulk, usually from government or commercial collections.
- man_made=spoil_heap: Where rock or sediment is dumped after being extracted from a quarry or riverbed.
See also
- Landfill on Wikipedia
- leretourdelautruche.com - Map of nuclear sectors around the world, including nuclear landfills
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