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2. Waste collector - Wikipedia

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   Waste collectors in Aix-en-Provence, France. A waste collector, also known as a garbage man, garbage collector, trashman (in the U.S), binman or dustman (in the UK), is a person employed by a public or private enterprise to collect and dispose of municipal solid waste (refuse) and recyclables from residential, commercial, industrial or other collection sites for further processing and waste ...

3. Roll-off (dumpster) - Wikipedia

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   Dumpster rental companies pay the landfill, transfer station, recycling center, or other type of disposal facility a fee to dump the customer's waste. Fees fluctuate from area to area and facility to facility. Dump fees can be the majority of the cost for the dumpster, and are measured in short tons in the U.S. The haul rate is the rate that ...

4. Toronto Solid Waste Management - Wikipedia

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   Keele Valley Landfill - former landfill owned and used by Metro Toronto from 1983 (Toronto since 1998 to 2002) to deal with waste from all municipalities that now make up Toronto. Now sits idle until 2028 when re-development can commence. Britannia Landfill - former landfill in Mississauga, Ontario took Metro Toronto and Toronto waste. Closed ...

5. GFL Environmental - Wikipedia

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   GFL Environmental waste bin. GFL Environmental Inc. (an initialism of Green For Life) is a Canadian waste management company, with headquarters in Vaughan, Ontario.Founded in 2007, GFL operates in all provinces in Canada and much of the United States, and currently employs more than 20,000 people. [2]

6. Blue box recycling system - Wikipedia

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   The blue box recycling system (BBRS) was initially a waste management system used by Canadian municipalities to collect source separated household waste materials for the purpose of recycling. The first full-scale community wide BBRS was implemented in 1983 by the waste management contractor Ontario Total Recycling Systems Ltd. (a subsidiary of ...

7. Recycling in Canada - Wikipedia

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   These three differently-coloured bins are used to sort waste in Toronto. The curbside collection systems for recyclates vary across Canada: Blue box – Ontario (excluding Toronto), British Columbia, Saskatchewan, Quebec and Manitoba; Wheeled Blue bin – Toronto, Calgary, Essex-Windsor, Winnipeg; Green box – used in North York, Ontario

8. USPS Post Office Box Lobby Recycling program - Wikipedia

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   USPS "Slim Jim" recycling bin for unwanted mail. The program uses 23-US-gallon (87 L)-capacity plastic bins, which USPS refers to as "Slim Jims". [8] The bins have lockable lids and have a narrow insertion slot to maintain customer privacy and limit the potential of discarded mail being stolen for the harvesting of personal information. [3] [4]

9. Automated vacuum collection - Wikipedia

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   Once an input bin is filled, or capacity is available, it is transferred to the central collection site and combined with the same class of waste. [citation needed] Also in Finland, in the suburb of Vuores in the city of Tampere, a vacuum collection system was included in a new suburban development planned for 13,000 inhabitants. It has a total ...