transfer station
Example Sentences
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Their trade group, the National Carton Council, has been lobbying the state, providing evidence that Waste Management’s Sacramento Recycling and Transfer Station successfully combines cartons with mixed paper and ships it to Malaysia and other Asian countries including Vietnam, proving that there is a market.
From Los Angeles Times
Residents of overwhelmed Eagle Pass, Utah, were allowed free access to the local transfer station if they hauled away their own.
Meanwhile, Darlington Borough Council's tip and waste transfer station will stay closed all day.
From BBC
When developers announced plans for a new 38-bay diesel truck transfer station on the grounds of a long-abandoned K-Mart department store, East Portland, Oregon, residents who’d hoped it might become a grocery store instead quickly collected more than 6,600 signatures in opposition and worked to stop it.
From Salon
Other artifacts the site may cough up — old bricks, cobblestones and rocks, sometimes accompanied by irresistible castoffs retrieved from the transfer station — become part of the improvised mosaics.
From Seattle Times
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