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Recent Examples of transfer station
The courts will take up a section of the park that had been home to a trash transfer station and seaweed composting site.
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Susannah Bryan, Sun Sentinel, 30 Oct. 2024
Officials called local tow company Nauset Recovery Inc, to haul the 12.5-foot and 1,240-pound apex predator in the back of a truck through the beachside town of Orleans to the local transfer station for a necropsy.
—Olatunji Osho-Williams, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Oct. 2024
Over 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
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Susannah Bryan, Sun Sentinel, 30 Oct. 2024
Officials called local tow company Nauset Recovery Inc, to haul the 12.5-foot and 1,240-pound apex predator in the back of a truck through the beachside town of Orleans to the local transfer station for a necropsy.
—Olatunji Osho-Williams, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Oct. 2024
Over 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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for transfer station
Noun
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Fiji has more than 330 islands, one sanitary landfill, and two municipal dumps.—
By Aryn Baker/Lautoka, Fiji ,
TIME,
3 July 2024
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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.—
Justine Calma,
The Verge,
3 Feb. 2024
Noun
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Whether the app lives on or gets sent to the social media junkyard will be known sooner rather than later, with a ruling likely before Jan. 19.—
Kaelan Deese,
Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government,
10 Jan. 2025
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The video features Drake in a celebratory mood, rocking all his famous jewelry while the same model van from the cover of Kendrick’s Good Kid, Mad City gets taken to a junkyard and demolished.—
Rob Marriott,
VIBE.com,
30 Dec. 2024
Noun
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The large dustbin is easy to remove and clean, and the three-part set-up was quick and intuitive.—
Alida Nugent,
Better Homes & Gardens,
15 Jan. 2025
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The dustbin, however, is on the smaller side at 0.1-gallon.—
Brenda Stolyar,
WIRED,
29 Nov. 2024
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Plastic jugs are often not recycled & end up in landfills.—
Hilary Tetenbaum,
USA TODAY,
15 Feb. 2025
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Disheartened and frustrated, Howells rushed to the landfill—roughly the size of a football field—only to realize that recovering his hardware crypto wallet was nearly impossible.—
Vinamrata Chaturvedi,
Quartz,
12 Feb. 2025
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This and oral reports evidenced that two even larger middens once existed nearby.—
Smithsonian Magazine,
Smithsonian Magazine,
7 Feb. 2025
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This behavior could help explain why historical Florida manatee populations that were hunted by humans are absent from middens and rarely mentioned in historical accounts.—
Beth Brady,
Sun Sentinel,
21 Jan. 2025
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