incinerator
noun
in·cin·er·a·tor
in-ˈsi-nə-ˌrā-tər 
: one that incinerates
especially
: a furnace or a container for incinerating waste materials
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One group — which registered itself as the Maryland Environment, Labor and Industry Coalition — planned to challenge the Next Generation Energy Act, and focus its campaign on trash incinerators, which will no longer receive a renewable energy subsidy under the law.
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Christine Condon, Baltimore Sun, 6 June 2025
Russell is registered to lobby in Miami-Dade County on behalf of the Sierra Club, an environmental advocacy group, and has lobbied against a county proposal to build a controversial trash incinerator.
—Tess Riski, Miami Herald, 10 Mar. 2025
Colbourne promises the city won’t give up on its fight against the trash incinerator.
—Susannah Bryan, Sun Sentinel, 8 Mar. 2025
Biden, though, was the first president to direct real money toward communities disproportionately affected by pollution—places where, say, multiple factories, refineries, truck yards, and garbage incinerators all operated in a condensed area.
—Zoë Schlanger, The Atlantic, 7 Mar. 2025
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Christine Condon, Baltimore Sun, 6 June 2025
Russell is registered to lobby in Miami-Dade County on behalf of the Sierra Club, an environmental advocacy group, and has lobbied against a county proposal to build a controversial trash incinerator.
—Tess Riski, Miami Herald, 10 Mar. 2025
Colbourne promises the city won’t give up on its fight against the trash incinerator.
—Susannah Bryan, Sun Sentinel, 8 Mar. 2025
Biden, though, was the first president to direct real money toward communities disproportionately affected by pollution—places where, say, multiple factories, refineries, truck yards, and garbage incinerators all operated in a condensed area.
—Zoë Schlanger, The Atlantic, 7 Mar. 2025
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“Incinerator.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/incinerator. Accessed 9 Jun. 2025.
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incinerator
noun
in·cin·er·a·tor
in-ˈsin-ə-ˌrāt-ər
: a furnace or a container for burning waste materials
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