transfer station

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Recent Examples of transfer station Instead, take them to a landfill or your local waste transfer station. Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 18 Jan. 2025 The new federal order requires the sharing of raw milk samples, upon request, from dairy farms, bulk milk shippers, milk transfer stations or dairy processing facilities that send or hold milk for pasteurization. Alexandra Banner, CNN, 11 Dec. 2024 The new order requires the sharing of raw milk samples, upon request, from dairy farms, bulk milk shippers, milk transfer stations or dairy processing facilities that send or hold milk for pasteurization. Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 6 Dec. 2024 The courts will take up a section of the park that had been home to a trash transfer station and seaweed composting site. Susannah Bryan, Sun Sentinel, 30 Oct. 2024 See All Example Sentences for transfer station
Recent Examples of Synonyms for transfer station
Noun
  • Fiji has more than 330 islands, one sanitary landfill, and two municipal dumps.
    By Aryn Baker/Lautoka, Fiji , TIME, 3 July 2024
  • 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
Noun
  • In one video, Enigma spots a junkyard filled with old-fashioned cars, the kind that required drivers.
    Leslie Katz, Forbes.com, 28 June 2025
  • Our production design department had to sift through a junkyard to find our production design.
    Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 8 May 2025
Noun
  • The filter, tube, and brush will all get thoroughly cleaned, and any debris collected while vacuuming is released into a dustbin, where it’s properly sealed off.
    Robb Report Studio, Robb Report, 3 July 2025
  • Evidence supporting the claim that China has tossed communism in the proverbial dustbin can be found in the growing number of businesses that have originated in China, only to expand globally.
    John Tamny, Forbes.com, 27 June 2025
Noun
  • And while tech companies have taken steps to extract and recycle that gold for years, much of it still ends up in landfills.
    Mack DeGeurin, Popular Science, 26 June 2025
  • Billions of dollars in returns—many of which end up in landfills—are a symptom of a deeper problem: digital discovery isn’t built for how people think or shop.
    Sindhya Valloppillil, Forbes.com, 25 June 2025
Noun
  • The musket balls were found together near a midden by the metal detectorist, cultural heritage coordinator Anthony Simmons said in the release, meaning a member of the First Nations could have brought the shot belt there and then discarded it.
    Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 14 May 2025
  • The midden is a testament to the volume of shellfish eaten by Hoabinhians.
    Smithsonian Magazine, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Feb. 2025

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