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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 ...
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 ...
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.
The company has a long history in the Bay Area, and holds a no-bid contract for garbage collection in San Francisco.In 1932, the city granted a permanent concession to the city's 97 independent garbage collectors; shortly thereafter those 97 independents banded together to form the company that would become Norcal Waste Systems. [4]
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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.
Garbage collection, or waste collection, is part of municipal waste management. Garbage collection may also refer to: Garbage collection (computer science) , in automatic memory management
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 ...