pulper
Americannoun
plural
pulpers-
a machine that grinds, shreds, or crushes paper, food waste, or other substances into pulp.
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a machine that separates the desirable parts of a fruit, such as citrus juice or coffee beans, from the undesirable parts, such as the rind or flesh.
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a company that produces pulp, especially paper or wood pulp.
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a person who works with or makes pulp.
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In 2022, the company dedicated a $50 million state-of-the-art drum pulper to spin and separate usable pulp from all the other stuff that cannot be recycled.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 19, 2024
Melissa: Glass is the enemy of the drum pulper, damaging its insides.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 19, 2024
"If you run a pulper, do you want paper cups? No," says Dr. Martin Mulvihill, chemist, green packaging expert and advisor on the FoodPrint of Food Packaging Report.
From Salon • Aug. 11, 2022
How long will it be before EDF, as McDonalds and the Tasmanian rainforest pulper Gunns did, finds itself going cap-in-hand to the people it's suing, begging for permission to drop the case?
From The Guardian • Feb. 28, 2013
Ltd., begin experiments in Ceylon with a Liberian disk coffee pulper; fully perfected in 1898.
From All About Coffee by Ukers, William H. (William Harrison)
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