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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 ...
A waste picker also known as waste collector or garbage collector is a person who salvages reusable or recyclable materials thrown away by others to sell or for personal consumption. [1] There are millions of waste pickers worldwide, predominantly in developing countries , but increasingly in post-industrial countries as well.
A garbage truck is a truck specially designed to collect municipal solid waste and transport it to a solid waste treatment facility, such as a landfill, recycling center or transfer station. In Australia they are commonly called rubbish trucks , or garbage trucks, while in the U.K. dustbin lorry , rubbish lorry or bin lorry is commonly used.
In Paris, the rag and bone man worked side by side with the municipal bin man, though reluctantly: in 1884, Eugène Poubelle introduced the first integrated kerbside collection and recycling system, requiring residents to separate their waste into perishable items, paper and cloth, and crockery and shells.
This is a slightly broader concept than LACMW as it would include both this and non-municipal fractions such as construction and demolition waste) LAPC Local Air Pollution Control; LARAC Local Authority Recycling Advisory Committee; LAS Landfill Allowance Scheme; LASU Local Authority Support Unit; LATS Landfill Allowance Trading Scheme
Sanitation workers carrying out manual pit emptying (in Durban, South Africa) with personal protective equipment. A sanitation worker (or sanitary worker) is a person responsible for cleaning, maintaining, operating, or emptying the equipment or technology at any step of the sanitation chain.
Until the 1960s, eleven unfiltered trash incinerators operated in NYC, burning garbage without regulation. [26] The last municipal incinerators in the city closed in the 1990s. [27] Currently, trash from Manhattan is sent to the Essex County Resource Recovery Facility, a waste-to-energy incineration power station. Ash from the incinerator is ...
Municipal solid waste landfills (MSWLF) are required to be designed to protect the environment from contaminants that may be present in the solid waste stream. [ 1 ] Some materials may be banned from disposal in municipal solid waste landfills including common household items such as paints, cleaners/ chemicals , motor oil , batteries ...