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Recent Examples of transfer station
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.
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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
Officials called local tow company Nauset Recovery Inc, to haul the 12.5-foot and 1,240-pound apex predator in the back of a truck through the beachside town of Orleans to the local transfer station for a necropsy.
—Olatunji Osho-Williams, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Oct. 2024
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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
Officials called local tow company Nauset Recovery Inc, to haul the 12.5-foot and 1,240-pound apex predator in the back of a truck through the beachside town of Orleans to the local transfer station for a necropsy.
—Olatunji Osho-Williams, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for transfer station
Noun
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Fiji has more than 330 islands, one sanitary landfill, and two municipal dumps.—
By Aryn Baker/Lautoka, Fiji ,
TIME,
3 July 2024
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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
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The series, which premieres on Prime Video on May 20, is set amid junkyards and repair shops, gangs and high school cliques.—
Manuel Betancourt,
Los Angeles Times,
20 May 2025
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The series follows a team of collectors in search of antique items found in junkyards, old barns and more.—
David Faris,
MSNBC Newsweek,
11 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Other criteria evaluated were battery life and dustbin capacity.—
Toni Sutton,
People.com,
5 June 2025
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There's no large dustbin at the top of the handle like the company's other models.—
Abhimanyu Ghoshal,
New Atlas,
22 May 2025
Noun
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Every second of every day, a garbage-truck-sized load of clothing is dumped in landfills.—
Karen Dougherty,
The Orlando Sentinel,
30 May 2025
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Sadly, most of these hard-to-recycle materials end up buried in landfills or get mixed into products like cement.—
Terence Musho,
The Conversation,
28 May 2025
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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
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The midden is a testament to the volume of shellfish eaten by Hoabinhians.—
Smithsonian Magazine,
Smithsonian Magazine,
7 Feb. 2025
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