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Recent Examples of transfer station
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.
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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
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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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for transfer station
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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
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The children found the mercury in a jar at a nearby junkyard.Bebe Hodges, The Enquirer, 28 Nov. 2024
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That could be yet another disruption to an automotive industry that relies on cars mostly heading to the junkyard after 15 years.James Morris, WIRED, 8 Dec. 2024
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As for Harris, she will be tasked as vice president with the role of presiding over Congress' certification of Trump's victory on January 6 of next year—four years to the day since the riot at the Capitol that seemed, at the time, destined to send her opponent to the dustbin of history.Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 8 Nov. 2024
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The auto clean process includes cleaning not only the dustbin, but also the brush, tube, and the HEPA filter.Terri Williams, Architectural Digest, 2 Dec. 2024
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Of those hides, only about 40 percent, or around 134 million, get saved from the landfill for leather use.Jennifer Bringle, WWD, 12 Dec. 2024
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Food that ends up in landfills decomposes anaerobically and gives off methane–which over the 20 years after its release is more than 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide in warming our climate.Marianne Krasny, Forbes, 3 Dec. 2024
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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
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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
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“Transfer station.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/transfer%20station. Accessed 3 Jan. 2025.
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