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2. Brown Friday - Wikipedia

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   The term was coined by plumbers who report a sudden increase in service calls that report clogged drains and broken garbage disposals happening, directly after Thanksgiving. Vic Fredlund, the service manager of Abacus Plumbing, believes this event to be caused by people "putting materials like starches , fibers , materials, things like that in ...

3. Waste management - Wikipedia

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   Waste management or waste disposal includes the processes and actions required to manage waste from its inception to its final disposal. [1] This includes the collection , transport , treatment , and disposal of waste, together with monitoring and regulation of the waste management process and waste-related laws , technologies, and economic ...

4. Rumpke Sanitary Landfill - Wikipedia

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   Therefore, they sold their hogs and charged money to take the garbage away, creating their trash business. [1] The Rumpke Landfill was started in 1945 and has expanded today to occupy over 230 acres (0.93 km 2 ) of land. [ 1 ]

5. Garbage disposal unit - Wikipedia

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   In the United States, 50% of homes had disposal units as of 2009, [12] compared with only 6% in the United Kingdom [13] and 3% in Canada. [14]In Britain, Worcestershire County Council and Herefordshire Council started to subsidize the purchase of garbage disposal units in 2005, in order to reduce the amount of waste going to landfill and the carbon footprint of garbage runs. [15]

6. 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 ...

7. Recycling - Wikipedia

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   This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 6 January 2025. Converting waste materials into new products This article is about recycling of waste materials. For recycling of waste energy, see Energy recycling. "Recycled" redirects here. For the album, see Recycled (Nektar album). The three chasing arrows of the universal recycling symbol Municipal ...