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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

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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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

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

From BBC ● Jan. 24, 2025

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

“He said, ‘I’m pretty sure I threw the rings out,'” Dennis Senibaldi, the transfer station supervisor, said Tuesday.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 29, 2022

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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