The word 'dumping' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to the action of unloading or discarding a large quantity of something all at once, such as "The company dumped all of its excess inventory at the end of the year."
Related: Great Barrier Reef in dire straits without extra $500m and ban on dumping Labor's new plan removes millions of dollars in taxpayer support for dredging at Abbot Point, while requiring that seabed to be dumped onshore next to the port instead of in sensitive wetlands or in reef waters.
World Wildlife Fund Australia welcomed the end to offshore dumping but questioned the need to expand the port during a coal industry downturn.
Waters said while Unesco's world heritage committee would welcome the end to offshore dredge dumping, it would "not be impressed" with the fact Abbot Point itself would proceed.
The battle over the site at Kings Cliffe is being seen as a test case for the rest of the country, as a growing number of waste companies hope to take advantage of the government's change of rules to allow such dumping to take place.
Welcome to the US border town of Nogales, home to the largest fresh-produce gateway into the US – a Big Food superhighway where convoys of vast trucks roll in from Mexico, sometimes dumping mountains of crops into landfill if, for example, the price of Florida tomatoes suddenly drops.
The campaign included a video featuring Barbie's long-term boyfriend Ken dumping her when he discovered she was involved in deforestation.
He acknowledged and apologised for his administration's promotion of dumping cheap US rice on Haiti, thereby destroying Haitian rice production and forcing rice farmers to flee to the overcrowded cities. Buttonholed in a UN hallway, he claims he thought that Haitians would "get aid to skip agricultural development and go straight into an industrial era".
We should be getting a lot smarter about using infrastructure in order to minimise the amount of dumping, especially when ports are operating at 50% capacity on the reef".
"The government is spending $400m on improving reef water quality by 1-2% a year, which seems like a crazy amount of money to spend when you're dumping 40m tonnes of waste at the same time.
Suffice to say, the British were somewhat taken aback when they were attacked in the 1990s by French prime minister Edith Cresson, among others, for "social dumping" because they had not signed up to the social chapter at Maastricht.
GBRMPA has imposed very strict conditions on the dumping of dredge material".
