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Recent Examples of transfer station
The jury saw photos of the search, which was conducted at a trash transfer station in Peabody, Massachusetts.
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Lauren Del Valle, CNN Money, 3 Dec. 2025
Municipal waste and recycling collected from homes and businesses in the area are received by the transfer station and temporarily stored in separate bays before recycling is moved to one of WM’s recycling facilities for processing.
—Jessica Alvarado Gamez, Denver Post, 29 Oct. 2025
During the shutdown, passengers on the Red and Green lines were encouraged to catch a Yellow Line train running from San Francisco to Antioch at a transfer station.
—Rick Hurd, Mercury News, 27 Oct. 2025
City officials declined to give cost estimates for the sorting facility or transfer station.
—David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Oct. 2025
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Lauren Del Valle, CNN Money, 3 Dec. 2025
Municipal waste and recycling collected from homes and businesses in the area are received by the transfer station and temporarily stored in separate bays before recycling is moved to one of WM’s recycling facilities for processing.
—Jessica Alvarado Gamez, Denver Post, 29 Oct. 2025
During the shutdown, passengers on the Red and Green lines were encouraged to catch a Yellow Line train running from San Francisco to Antioch at a transfer station.
—Rick Hurd, Mercury News, 27 Oct. 2025
City officials declined to give cost estimates for the sorting facility or transfer station.
—David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for transfer station
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Fiji has more than 330 islands, one sanitary landfill, and two municipal dumps.—
By Aryn Baker/Lautoka, Fiji ,
TIME,
3 July 2024
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Other materials might need to be sent to a hazardous waste landfill that has double the plastic lining in place as a typical sanitary landfill in order to protect groundwater from anything that might otherwise leach into it.—
Justine Calma,
The Verge,
3 Feb. 2024
Noun
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The car had been in France, spending an extended amount of time in a junkyard and on top of a mall.—
Dewayne Bevil,
The Orlando Sentinel,
6 Jan. 2026
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Decades ago, rangers and local volunteers transformed this area—once a junkyard—into a healthy 70-acre marsh with beavers, otters, turtles, and numerous avian species.—
Stephanie Vermillion,
Travel + Leisure,
5 Dec. 2025
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Thankfully, city officials—prodded by tenants and small-business owners, clergy and homeowners, and, yes, some landlords—rejected advice to consign neighborhoods such as East Flatbush to history’s dustbin.—
Michael Powell,
The Atlantic,
11 Feb. 2026
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The auto clean process includes cleaning not only the dustbin, but also the brush, tube, and the HEPA filter.—
Yelena Moroz Alpert,
Architectural Digest,
23 Dec. 2025
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If the state could copy the country’s schema, even a 10 percent diversion rate shortly after implementation could keep 118,000 tons of textiles out of landfills in a single year.—
Alexandra Harrell,
Sourcing Journal,
9 Feb. 2026
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Giving a worn accessory new life brings a sense of satisfaction while keeping it out of the landfill.—
Jennifer Prince,
Southern Living,
8 Feb. 2026
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Moreover, at higher temperatures, pine cones stored in middens, which act as a refrigerator, tend to spoil faster.—
Shi En Kim,
AZCentral.com,
23 Dec. 2025
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Every man must take part in the work, and even the officers cover the middens and feed the sick.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
4 Dec. 2025
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“Transfer station.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/transfer%20station. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.
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