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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.

transfer station British  

noun

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

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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 • Nov. 17, 2025

Late last month, Anchorage opened a new 150-bed mass shelter at the city’s old waste transfer station administration building.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 10, 2023

If it is street sweeping, it is contaminated so this goes to a waste transfer station and sent onto to Viridor for incineration.

From BBC • Jun. 7, 2023

Another was brought by Seneca Lake Guardian, an environmental group, against the state for approving a waste transfer station that could leak toxic chemicals into Cayuga Lake, a source of drinking water.

From Salon • Feb. 21, 2023

Uncle Drum has to decide about trucking that mess to the transfer station.

From "The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle" by Leslie Connor

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