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The District of Columbia Department of Public Works (DPW) is an agency of the government of the District of Columbia, in the United States.The department oversees solid waste (e.g., garbage) and recyclables collection, street cleaning, parking enforcement, and governmental vehicle procurement, maintenance and fueling.
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 ...
Republic Services, Inc. is a North American waste disposal company whose services include non-hazardous solid waste collection, waste transfer, waste disposal, recycling, and energy services. It is the second largest provider of waste disposal in the United States (as measured by revenue) after Waste Management .
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 ...
“Keep DC trash free,” reads the incendiary ad spotted by Capitol Hill Baptist Church pastor Caleb Morell. The ad featured a red circle with a line through it over an image of a MAGA hat wearer ...
A waste collection barge in Venice, Italy. Manual waste collection in Bukit Batok West, Singapore. Waste on a sidewalk for collection, bagged and stickered - in Dublin, Ireland. 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.
WCA Waste Collection Authority; WDA Waste Disposal Authority; WDF WasteDataFlow (web-based system for municipal waste data reporting by UK local authorities) WEEE Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment; WET Waste and Emissions Trading Act 2003; WFD Waste Framework Directive; WID Waste Incineration Directive; WIP Waste Implementation Programme
Kerbside collection or curbside collection is a service provided to households, typically in urban and suburban areas, of collecting and disposing of household waste and recyclables. It is usually accomplished by personnel using specially built vehicles to pick up household waste in containers that are acceptable to, or prescribed by, the ...