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Downstream, Berkeley's first zoning designated the marshy area near the creek and railroad tracks for "noxious industries." In the 1920s, the city built a garbage incinerator just south of the creek channel at Second Street, across from today's city Transfer Station. The incinerator failed, and the building became a slaughterhouse.
A transfer station, or resource recovery centre, is a building or processing site for the temporary deposition, consolidation and aggregation of waste. [1] [2] Transfer stations vary significantly in size and function. Some transfer stations allow residents and businesses to drop off small loads of waste and recycling, and may perform some ...
In 1988, San Francisco's Solid Waste Management Program set diversion goals, calling for a 32 percent reduction in the city's waste stream by 1992 and 43 percent by 2002. However, in 1989, the California legislature preempted San Francisco's goals by passing the Integrated Waste Management Act (AB 939), which set waste reduction goals of 25 ...
Transfer station may refer to: Transfer station (waste management) Transfer station (transportation), an interchange station;
As for where to locate such a site in his part of town, it took follow-up questioning to produce the answer - a former refuse transfer station site on Power Inn Road.
Republic Services, Inc. is a North American waste disposal company whose services include non-hazardous solid waste collection, waste transfer, waste disposal, recycling, and energy services. It is the second largest provider of waste disposal in the United States (as measured by revenue) after Waste Management .
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Aerial view of Recology San Francisco, Recology's dump/transfer station. Recology Inc., formerly known as Norcal Waste Systems, is an American waste management company headquartered in San Francisco, California. The company collects and processes municipal solid waste, reclaiming reusable materials.