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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Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava, a long-time proponent of a waste-to-energy incinerator to be built in Doral, has reversed course and begun to support trucking waste out of the county to Central Florida landfills. —

Miami Herald Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 30 Jan. 2025 This latest requirement is part of the city's Zero Waste initiative, which aims to reduce 90% of waste from landfills and incinerators by 2040. —

Alexis Simmerman, Austin American-Statesman, 25 Sep. 2024 Some open-air incinerators stopped operating at the dumps. —

Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 11 Jan. 2025 Sugarcane provides evidence that newborns were tossed into incinerators at St. Joseph’s Mission; NoiseCat’s own father, Ed Archie NoiseCat, miraculously avoided immolation as a baby only through the intercession of a groundskeeper who heard the infant’s cries. —

Matthew Carey, Deadline, 29 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for incinerator