transfer station

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Recent Examples of transfer station The new federal order requires the sharing of raw milk samples, upon request, from dairy farms, bulk milk shippers, milk transfer stations or dairy processing facilities that send or hold milk for pasteurization. Alexandra Banner, CNN, 11 Dec. 2024 The new order requires the sharing of raw milk samples, upon request, from dairy farms, bulk milk shippers, milk transfer stations or dairy processing facilities that send or hold milk for pasteurization. Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 6 Dec. 2024 The courts will take up a section of the park that had been home to a trash transfer station and seaweed composting site. 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 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
  • The team tracked the call to a junkyard, and Maggie and Scola were able to pull Analis from a trunk before the car was crunched in a compactor.
    Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 18 Feb. 2025
  • But for some of those who were hit hardest by the disaster, such as Lara’s junkyard business that was among roughly a dozen merchants operating under the freeway — recovery has been much slower.
    Ruben Vives, Los Angeles Times, 6 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • At a time when too many people seem intent on sending freedom to the dustbin of history, Women’s History Month offers an opportunity to pay tribute to women whose ideas and words have renewed the love of freedom for generations of readers.
    The Editorial Board, Orange County Register, 9 Mar. 2025
  • Dustbin capacity in Shark robotic vacuums The dustbin is what holds all the dirt and debris that a Shark robotic vacuum picks up.
    BestReviews, Chicago Tribune, 19 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Soil with low levels of dioxin contamination were to be unearthed and taken to secure landfills, while highly contaminated soil was to be taken to short-term storage for treatment.
    David Rising and Aniruddha Ghosal, Los Angeles Times, 20 Mar. 2025
  • Cleanup spanned over the course of many years and at its peak, over 410 trucks were transporting debris to landfills every day.
    Alex Gurley, People.com, 19 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The midden is a testament to the volume of shellfish eaten by Hoabinhians.
    Smithsonian Magazine, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Feb. 2025
  • This and oral reports evidenced that two even larger middens once existed nearby.
    Smithsonian Magazine, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Feb. 2025

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