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Recent Examples of transfer stationOver the years, the railroad filled in acreage to the east, creating room for rail yards, river and lake boat transfer stations, train sheds and, finally, piggyback trucking facilities.—Andrew Johnston, Chicago Tribune, 11 July 2024 Half went to landfills and waste incinerators, seven stopped pinging at transfer stations that don’t recycle or sort plastic bags, six last pinged at the store where they were dropped off, and three ended up in Indonesia and Malaysia, where some U.S. trash is shipped for processing.—Paul Rogers, The Mercury News, 22 May 2024 This transfer station, which opened in September, is temporary, but the agency is looking to build a permanent location that would also include shopping and affordable housing.—Colbi Edmonds, New York Times, 22 May 2024 Building the transmission lines and transfer stations needed involves huge land acquisitions, exhaustive environmental reviews and negotiations to determine who should pay what costs.—Evan Halper, Washington Post, 7 Mar. 2024 See all Example Sentences for transfer station
Fiji has more than 330 islands, one sanitary landfill, and two municipal dumps.
By Aryn Baker/Lautoka, Fiji ,
TIME,
3 July 2024
Other materials might need to be sent to a hazardous waste landfill that has double the plastic lining in place as a typical sanitary landfill in order to protect groundwater from anything that might otherwise leach into it.
And the Leather and Hide Council of America estimates that one metric ton of hides in a landfill generates more than 13 metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions.
Jennifer Bringle,
WWD,
12 Dec. 2024
Thousands of unwanted gifts end up in the landfill each year, adding up to more than 5 billion pounds of holiday waste.
Emily Williams,
Better Homes & Gardens,
8 Dec. 2024
Also plugging into the idea of tourism as education, marine biologist Cormac McGinley runs leave-no-trace fossil discovery walks and tours of the Burren’s lunar-like landscape, which take in sea caves, ancient middens, and color-popping anemones.
Sarah James,
Condé Nast Traveler,
17 Nov. 2024
Although the bones of fish, cattle, sheep and pig were pulled out of the middens (halos of garbage dumped from the huts above), there was no evidence of human casualties.
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