transfer station

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Recent Examples of transfer station 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 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 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Its base station can wash, dry, remove or reattach the mop pads as needed, and empty the robot's dustbin.
    Andrew Gebhart, PCMAG, 11 Jan. 2025
  • Plus, the operation is fairly quiet and the self-cleaning mop and dustbin features limit maintenance on your part.
    Katherine Alex Beaven, Peoplemag, 19 Sep. 2024
Noun
  • This method repurposes unused stock that would otherwise end up in a landfill.
    John F. McQuillan, Forbes, 16 Jan. 2025
  • Imagine unwrapping your favorite cannabis product and knowing that the packaging won’t end up in a landfill.
    Matt Rozo, The Mercury News, 14 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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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