transfer station

noun

Definition of transfer station

: a site where recyclables and refuse are collected and sorted in preparation for processing or landfill

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The Bristol trash transfer station also will be closed, but will reopen for normal business hours on Saturday. — Courant Community, "New Britain, Bristol City Halls: Closed On Good Friday," 29 Mar. 2018 Lake County made transfer stations an option for the first time in 2009, so that the county would be prepared for a time when the landfills were at capacity and no new landfills were possible, Willis said. — Emily K. Coleman, Lake County News-Sun, "With lawsuits already filed over Zion landfill odor, residents wary of possible expansion," 7 June 2018 South Windsor officials are looking at ways to improve the recycling of glass collected at the curbside and at the transfer station. — Peter Marteka, Courant Community, "South Windsor Considering Separating Glass From Its Recycling Stream," 6 July 2018 Ocean View filed a lawsuit against Rainbow in 2013, alleging that dust and odors from the company’s waste transfer station at 17121 Nichols Lane in Huntington Beach were making students at neighboring schools sick. — Priscella Vega, latimes.com, "Demolition clears way for new multipurpose room at H.B.'s Oak View Elementary School," 5 July 2018 The highest score was 4.73 for the refuse transfer station. — Jane Ford-stewart, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, "5 things taxpayers should know about a recommendation that $60 million is needed to upgrade West Allis city buildings," 28 June 2018 That includes expansion of either existing landfills, the construction of a new landfill or additional transfer stations where garbage is collected by trucks and taken to landfills in the Rockford area, Willis said. — Emily K. Coleman, Lake County News-Sun, "With lawsuits already filed over Zion landfill odor, residents wary of possible expansion," 7 June 2018 Along with Hunts Point Market, the Bronx became home to dozens of waste-transfer stations—all of which increased truck traffic and exhaust fumes, as well as air contaminants—that were far removed from the city’s thriving downtown neighborhoods. — Sean Patrick Cooper, The New Republic, "Is America Ready for the Next Superstorm?," 4 June 2018 The waste-management authority in Lancaster County this spring more than doubled the charge per ton that residential trash collectors must pay to deposit recyclables at its transfer station, starting June 1. — Bob Tita, WSJ, "Recycling, Once Embraced by Businesses and Environmentalists, Now Under Siege," 13 May 2018

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