transfer station

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.

transfer station

noun

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

Example Sentences

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

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

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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.

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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.

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Nor is the new Northeast Recycling & Transfer Station that King County is considering for my residential neighborhood feasible.

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Related Words

• depot 
• junkyard