transfer station
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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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
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 • May 15, 2024
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
The complaint says recycling activities stopped at the Cheverly property following the January fire — at which time it began to function as an illegal dump and garbage transfer station.
From Washington Post • Jan. 27, 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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