transfer station

noun

|Updated on: 21 Jun 2018

Definition of transfer station

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

Recent Examples of transfer station from the Web

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
The Illinois attorney general’s office filed a lawsuit in June 2005 against the Triad Auto owner and other companies involved in the waste transfer station.

— steve lord, Aurora Beacon-News, "Aurora to settle lawsuit with environmentally troubled car lot," 10 May 2018
The successful awarding follows two prior failed bids from RTA for federal grant money to build a new $8 million bus transfer station in New Orleans East and $20 million to upgrade the RTA's aging bus and paratransit fleet.

— beau evans, NOLA.com, "Algiers ferry terminal upgrade coming; RTA wins $2.4 million federal grant," 9 May 2018
Griswold's transfer station was open and free for the day to all Griswold residents without paying the usual disposal fee.

— janice steinhagen, Courant Community, "Crews Clean Up Streets, Parks For Earth Day," 2 May 2018
The parcels, which include an approximately 60,000-square-foot building that would be demolished, were once used as a transfer station for waste, but the facility hasn’t been used in more than a decade, the brokers said.

— ryan ori, chicagotribune.com, "Fulton Market land could go from trash heap to cash heap," 18 Apr. 2018
By overhauling a major transfer station, upgrading a junction, wires, and signals, and adding four new switches, Metro hopes to reduce future disruptions in service and shave several minutes off the hour-plus ride between Long Beach and DTLA.

— neal broverman, Los Angeles Magazine, "The Metro Blue Line’s Closure Couldn’t Come at a Worse Time," 16 Apr. 2018

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