transfer station

American  

noun

1. a place where residential garbage and commercial wastes are compressed, baled, and loaded on vehicles for moving to disposal sites, as for landfill.

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transfer station British  

noun

1. a municipal depot where rubbish is sorted for recycling or relocation to a landfill site

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Example Sentences

Residents of overwhelmed Eagle Pass, Utah, were allowed free access to the local transfer station if they hauled away their own.

From The Wall Street Journal

Meanwhile, Darlington Borough Council's tip and waste transfer station will stay closed all day.

From BBC

When developers announced plans for a new 38-bay diesel truck transfer station on the grounds of a long-abandoned K-Mart department store, East Portland, Oregon, residents who’d hoped it might become a grocery store instead quickly collected more than 6,600 signatures in opposition and worked to stop it.

From Salon

Other artifacts the site may cough up — old bricks, cobblestones and rocks, sometimes accompanied by irresistible castoffs retrieved from the transfer station — become part of the improvised mosaics.

From Seattle Times

Neighbors have put up with these impacts for years, believing the county’s promise that the Houghton Transfer Station would close and a new facility would replace it.

From Seattle Times

Related Words

• depot
• junkyard