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2. Automated vacuum collection - Wikipedia

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   In February 2014, the municipality began replacing the neighborhood's street trash cans with pneumatic cans. [19] Now there are also around 30 waste collection points in public areas - parks, schools and the streets. [16] The system is also planned to be connected to all future neighborhoods and serve 10,660 house units. [20]

3. Waste container - Wikipedia

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   Japan's trash containers are divided into combustibles, cans/bottles/pet bottles and newspapers and magazines. Recycling trash can in Natal, Brazil. A waste container, also known as a dustbin, [1] rubbish bin, trash can, garbage can, wastepaper basket, and wastebasket, among other names, is a type of container intended to store waste that is usually made out of metal or plastic.

4. Waste collection - Wikipedia

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   Waste collection considerations of waste during different types of waste and size of bins, positioning of the bins, and how often bins are to be serviced. Overfilled bins result in rubbish falling out while being tipped. Hazardous rubbish like empty petrol cans can cause fires igniting other trash when the truck compactor is operating.

5. Reverse vending machine - Wikipedia

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   A person can be rewarded a monetary gain or other rewards by disposing of their waste, such as plastic bottles. [12] This economic benefit is an incentive for people to dispose of their waste correctly. [12] With landfills receiving 27 million tons of plastic in 2018, the RVM attempts to combat this by providing a convenient proper disposal ...

6. Garbage truck - Wikipedia

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   Thornycroft Steam Dust-Cart of 1897 with tipper body. Wagons and other means had been used for centuries to haul away solid waste. Among the first self-propelled garbage trucks were those ordered by Chiswick District Council from the Thornycroft Steam Wagon and Carriage Company in 1897 described as a steam motor tip-car, a new design of body specific for "the collection of dust and house refuse".

7. Kerbside collection - Wikipedia

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   A wide variety of hard plastics, glass bottles and jars, steel cans, aluminium cans, paper and cardboard can be put in the recycling bin. The green waste bin can be used for garden organics (e.g. small branches, leaves, grass clippings), and councils are increasingly allowing food scraps, used paper towels and tissues and other biodegradable ...