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Recent Examples of transfer station
Lunar Gateway was designed to serve as both a research platform and a transfer station that astronauts would use to board the moon landers before descending to the lunar surface.
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Reuters,
NBC news,
24 Mar. 2026
Instead, take them to a landfill or your local waste transfer station.
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Melissa Locker,
Southern Living,
21 Jan. 2026
The two victims told police a car drove up to the bus transfer station on East Lancaster Avenue and someone in the car fired shots, police said.
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Lillie Davidson,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
3 Jan. 2026
The jury saw photos of the search, which was conducted at a trash transfer station in Peabody, Massachusetts.
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Lauren Del Valle,
CNN Money,
3 Dec. 2025
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Reuters,
NBC news,
24 Mar. 2026
Instead, take them to a landfill or your local waste transfer station.
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Melissa Locker,
Southern Living,
21 Jan. 2026
The two victims told police a car drove up to the bus transfer station on East Lancaster Avenue and someone in the car fired shots, police said.
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Lillie Davidson,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
3 Jan. 2026
The jury saw photos of the search, which was conducted at a trash transfer station in Peabody, Massachusetts.
—
Lauren Del Valle,
CNN Money,
3 Dec. 2025
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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.
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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.
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Crews are seen pouring water on a massive junkyard fire in Opa-locka on Tuesday, May 26, 2026.
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About 125 people in apartments east of the junkyard were evacuated.
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Plus, its dock automatically empties the dustbin, washes and dries the mop pads, and can go up to 65 days between dustbin changes.
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The suction power easily keeps up with her toddler’s Cheerio spills, and the dustbin is still large enough to clean her entire split-level home in one pass.
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Transporting such equipment over long distances can be expensive, causing some materials to be diverted into lower-value recycling streams or even sent to landfills.
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Today, more than half of plastic waste ends up in landfills, and less than one-tenth is recycled globally.
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But this is the first time archaeologists have actually unearthed a midden with evidence that people added to it regularly for so many generations.
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Now, researchers plan to extend their investigations to nearby early settlement sites to determine if Culasawani is a midden or muddle.
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“Transfer station.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/transfer%20station. Accessed 27 Jun. 2026.
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