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Transfer station definition

Transfer station means a facility created to receive solid waste from collection areas and transport in bulk in covered vehicles or containers to waste processing and, or, disposal facilities ;
Transfer station means any place, premises, or establishment where milk or milk products are transferred directly from 1 milk tank truck to another.
Transfer station means any solid waste storage or collection facility at which solid waste is transferred from collection vehicles to haulage vehicles for transportation to a central solid waste management facility for disposal, incineration or resource recovery.

Examples of Transfer station in a sentence

  • Transfer station staff are trained to visually screen waste loads as they come into the facility for any prohibited wastes.

  • The data, details, and virtual narrative that Xxxxxxx provided to the pregnancy app—that she was pregnant—could be used not only to support an inconsistent and inaccurate reality, but also to commodify a false identity.

  • As noted in previous committee and Council meetings, the Recycle Center costs are primarily driven by hauling costs from the Center to the Valley View Transfer station.

  • Transfer station tunnels will be washed daily and all materials and debris will be cleaned from the tunnels.

  • The Transfer station in turn grinds the pallets up for residents to use (free of charge) as wood chips for landscaping projects.


More Definitions of Transfer station

Transfer station means any facility where quantities of solid waste delivered by vehicle are consolidated or aggregated for subsequent transfer by vehicle for processing, recycling or disposal.
Transfer station means a Regional District Solid Waste receiving facility which is used for the temporary storage of solid waste and source separated recyclable materials.
Transfer station means a combination of structures, machinery, or devices at a place or facility where waste is taken from collection vehicles and placed in other transportation units, with or without reduction of volume, for movement to another waste management facility.
Transfer station means a site at which solid wastes are concentrated for transport to a processing facility or land disposal site. A transfer station may be fixed or mobile.
Transfer station means any facility used to manage the removal, compaction and transfer of solid waste from collection vehicles and containers, and from other private and commercial vehicles to greater capacity transport vehicles.
Transfer station means a permanent, fixed, supplemental collection and transportation facility that is used to deposit collected solid waste from off-site into a transfer vehicle for transport to a solid waste handling or disposal facility.
Transfer station means a facility the primary purpose of which is to store or hold solid waste for transport to a processing or disposal facility. Operations at such facilities may include separation of incidental amounts of recyclable materials or unauthorized waste.