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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.
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]
The Rotopress is a continuously compacting garbage truck. A massive rotating drum compacts and stores the garbage. [1] The outer edge of the drum acts as the loading hopper, and paddles on the drum convey the waste around an auger of decreasing pitch until it is small enough to be forced through a small ring-shaped gap between the drum and the auger, where it then enters the main section of ...
Muck acts like the following: He/She can shift material like a bulldozer, and a loader, empty material like a dump truck, and can self load like a kubota tracked dumper or a garbage truck, load and unload him/herself like a tractor scraper, and is the most versatile out of all of Bob's machines.
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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 ...
Stinky (voiced by Jaden Betts in season 1; Issac Ryan Brown in season 2) – A brown rear loader garbage truck who is the sillier one of the duo. He sees value in garbage where others don't and often provides materials needed to solve a problem, though he often attempts sillier methods such as sneaking in his favorite trash item, moldy melons).
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 ...