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Recent Examples of transfer station
Building the transmission lines and transfer stations needed involves huge land acquisitions, exhaustive environmental reviews and negotiations to determine who should pay what costs.
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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
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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
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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 business traces its origins to a junkyard and coal delivery business in Colerain Township that later added a hog farm after a Depression-era customer paid him with six pigs.Alexander Coolidge, The Enquirer, 22 Nov. 2024
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Left unchecked, the junkyard of orbital debris can pose dangers to both crewed and uncrewed space missions, as well as astronauts on the space station.Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 21 Nov. 2024
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In the meantime, however, the robovac delivers plenty of suction power, a spacious dustbin, and a 240ml water tank that allows this robot to also mop your floors.Gabriela Vatu, PCMAG, 11 Nov. 2024
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Hundreds of tiny bristles latch onto hair, pulling it off your surfaces and stuffing it into a dustbin built into the bottom of the roller with just a few gentle swipes.Mia Meltzer, Rolling Stone, 24 Oct. 2024
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Food is often cut off from oxygen when it's piled up in a landfill.London Gibson, The Indianapolis Star, 4 Nov. 2024
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In the Wednesday complaint, the county alleged that the companies promoted their bottles as recyclable but knew most of them would end up in landfills and that they cannot be meaningfully recycled without environmental harms.Zack Budryk, The Hill, 1 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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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 30 Nov. 2024.
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