incinerator

noun

in·cin·er·a·tor in-ˈsi-nə-ˌrā-tər

: one that incinerates

especially : a furnace or a container for incinerating waste materials

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Spain's National Police have a theory that Medina fell into a garbage bin while attempting to retrieve an item such as her cellphone and passed out before she and the garbage were dumped into a garbage truck, crushed in the truck's garbage compactor and eventually dropped into an incinerator. —

Landon Mion, Fox News, 22 Oct. 2024 When those garments reach the end of their use by consumers, Circle Economy found that 61.4 percent of those items end up in landfills or incinerators. —

Jennifer Bringle, Sourcing Journal, 3 Sep. 2019 America’s favorite animal to eat — the chicken — has also become its most expendable: In 2021, around 556 million chickens in the US died at hatcheries and on farms before reaching the slaughterhouse, their carcasses winding up in landfills, incinerators, compost heaps, or pet food. —

Kenny Torrella, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018 The decision of where to build Miami-Dade's new trash incinerator will wait until November, according to the Miami Herald. —

Sommer Brugal, Axios, 19 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for incinerator