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2. Mr. Trash Wheel - Wikipedia

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   Mr. Trash Wheel is a trash interceptor that removes trash from the Jones Falls river as it empties into the Inner Harbor in Baltimore, Maryland. It is powered by a water wheel and solar cells , and rakes trash from the harbor onto an onboard conveyor belt which routes it into a dumpster on the vessel.

3. Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Directive - Wikipedia

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   The directive imposes the responsibility for the disposal of waste electrical and electronic equipment on the manufacturers or distributors of such equipment. [5] It requires that those companies establish an infrastructure for collecting WEEE, in such a way that "Users of electrical and electronic equipment from private households should have the possibility of returning WEEE at least free of ...

4. Waste container - Wikipedia

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   Japan's trash containers are divided into combustibles, cans/bottles/pet bottles and newspapers and magazines. Recycling trash can in Natal, Brazil. A waste container, also known as a dustbin, [1] rubbish bin, trash can, garbage can, wastepaper basket, and wastebasket, among other names, is a type of container intended to store waste that is usually made out of metal or plastic.

5. Trash interceptor - Wikipedia

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   Garbage collected by Mr. Trash Wheel could come from anywhere in the watershed. [3] Operated by solar and hydro power, the wheel moves continuously, removing garbage and dumping it into an attached dumpster; its daily capacity is estimated at 25 tons. In its first 18 months of operation, it removed more than 350 tons of litter from Baltimore's ...

6. 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 ...

7. George Roby Dempster - Wikipedia

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   Dempster is known for the invention of the Dempster-Dumpster, a now-commonly-used trash receptacle that can be mechanically emptied into garbage trucks. During the 1910s and 1920s, the Dempster Brothers Construction Company, operated by Dempster and his brothers, built a number of roads and railroads across the Southern Appalachian region. [ 2 ]

8. Compactor - Wikipedia

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   A solar trash compactor on a residential corner in Jersey City, New Jersey. Example of a larger mechanical compactor. In the United States, there are also trash compactors, hydraulic or manual, designed for residential use. Likewise, they reduce the volume of garbage. For example, some compactors reduce the volume of polystyrene to 1/30.

9. Kerbside collection - Wikipedia

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   Source separation used to be the preferred method due to the high cost of sorting commingled (mixed waste) collection. However, advances in sorting technology have substantially lowered this overhead, and many areas that had developed source separation programs have switched to what is called co-mingled collection. [6]