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  2. Waste picker - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  3. 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 ...

  4. Sanitation worker - Wikipedia

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    Another definition is: "The moment an individual’s waste is outsourced to another, it becomes sanitation work." [3]: 4 Some organizations use the term specifically for municipal solid waste collectors, whereas others exclude the workers involved in management of solid waste (rubbish, trash) sector from its definition.

  5. After Becoming Friends, Garbage Collector Rearranges Route to ...

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    John runs out to greet the waste collector, bringing him an apple or other treat, while Hodges scoops the boy up for a big hug and lets him climb into the truck and toot the horn.

  6. Garbage Collector Saves Man, Woman, Dog From Burning Building

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    A man, woman, and their dog are lucky to be alive after a garbage collector bravely evacuated them from their burning home in Tipton, England. Steve Whitehouse is being hailed a hero for his quick ...

  7. Informal waste collection - Wikipedia

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    Informal waste collection is the activity of "manually sorting and extracting various recyclable and reusable materials from mixed waste, at legal and illegal dumpsites, on top of or under piles of waste, in bins, at various transfer points, in transport trucks or elsewhere". [1]

  8. Waste collection - Wikipedia

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    Waste collection is a part of the process of waste management. It is the transfer of solid waste from the point of use and disposal to the point of treatment or landfill . Waste collection also includes the curbside collection of recyclable materials that technically are not waste , as part of a municipal landfill diversion program.

  9. Garbage collection (computer science) - Wikipedia

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    Stop-and-copy garbage collection in a Lisp architecture: [1] Memory is divided into working and free memory; new objects are allocated in the former. When it is full (depicted), garbage collection is performed: All data structures still in use are located by pointer tracing and copied into consecutive locations in free memory.