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Aircraft-carrier landing; G-force suits and survival equipment; navigation. November 17, 1997 12 "Electricity" Electricity: lightning; power-line maintenance; resuscitation. November 24, 1997 13 "Food Production" Visits to an ice-cream store and a potato-chip factory; how bacteria spreads. December 1, 1997 14 "Emergency"
Bin tippers are a type of lifting equipment used in many industries, including waste management, food processing, chemical manufacturing and facility management. [1] Although bin tippers are often components of larger machines (such as garbage trucks), an increasing number of 'standalone' or mobile units are available. [2]
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.
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 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.
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Trump, for his part, has repeatedly called the entire United States a “garbage can” and attacked Democrats as “the enemy from within” and even suggested that the military could be used ...
Many terms are used to refer to people who salvage recyclables from the waste stream for sale or personal consumption. In English, these terms include rag picker, reclaimer, informal resource recoverer, binner, recycler, poacher, salvager, scavenger, and waste picker; in Spanish cartonero, chatarrero, pepenador, clasificador, minador and reciclador; and in Portuguese catador de materiais ...