transfer station

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Recent Examples on the Web 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 Leaking batteries can also pose risks to workers at landfills, incinerators, and transfer stations. Justine Calma, The Verge, 3 Feb. 2024 Republic trash trucks pick up municipal waste and deliver it to transfer stations, including one in Anaheim, where green waste and materials that can be recycled are separated out. Kevin Smith, Orange County Register, 1 Feb. 2024 Two law enforcement officials briefed on the case told the Globe that investigators recovered a hacksaw and blood evidence in trash at the Peabody transfer station. Dugan Arnett, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Jan. 2023 See all Example Sentences for transfer station 
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Noun
  • 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.
    Justine Calma, The Verge, 3 Feb. 2024
Noun
  • After Klein died in 2001, the junkyard was taken over by his two sons who maintained the same level of secrecy.
    Howard Walker, Robb Report, 21 Oct. 2024
  • Well, somebody came up with the idea to also take a body from a junkyard and put it on the same dragster frame.
    Jim Clash, Forbes, 16 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • The cordless vacuum also has a detachable dustbin that can be emptied with the press of a button.
    Clara McMahon, People.com, 20 Oct. 2024
  • The HoloLens 2 now joins Magic Leap in the dustbin of history.
    Charlie Fink, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • The state did 70 inspections from 2015 to 2021 of waste that Walmart stores sent to municipal landfills and found thousands of containers of toxic aerosols and liquid wastes, including spray paints, rust removers, bleach, pesticides, and medical waste, such as over-the-counter drugs.
    Olga R. Rodriguez, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2024
  • Walmart will be liable for millions of dollars in civil penalties and costs for allegedly dumping hazardous waste and sensitive customer records in California landfills, according to a stipulated judgment filed this week in Alameda County Superior Court.
    Jasmine Mendez, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • 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.
    Franz Lidz, New York Times, 19 Mar. 2024
  • The land has been largely untouched for centuries — the Mocama and the Guale tribes had a presence on neighboring St. Simons Island, and while there is little information about Indigenous groups on Little St. Simons, shell middens suggest there was travel between the two.
    Gisela Williams, Travel + Leisure, 16 Oct. 2023

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“Transfer station.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/transfer%20station. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.

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