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The North Transfer Station, also known as the North Recycling and Disposal Station, is a municipal waste collection and distribution facility in Seattle, Washington, United States. It is located in the Wallingford neighborhood near Gas Works Park and is one of two transfer stations managed by Seattle Public Utilities .
Harrison residents can drop off electronics at the village hall located at W5298 State Highway 114 Monday through Friday 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
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.
A landfill [a] is a site for the disposal of waste materials. It is the oldest and most common form of waste disposal, although the systematic burial of waste with daily, intermediate and final covers only began in the 1940s.
[4] [7] Instead, soft-drink and packaging manufacturers presented recycling as an "industry alternative" to deposit systems. [4] As consumer awareness about the waste problem began to spread, companies such as Coca-Cola and Pepsi pushed for recycling programs in their advertising campaigns (e.g. "Keep America Beautiful") in the early 1970s.
The modern Blue-Box recycling bin was invented by Jack McGinnes nearly one hundred years after Poubelle's idea to sort types of waste by type. [9] The proliferation of curbside blue-bin recycling containers coincided with the increase in municipal recycling rates which increased from just over 6% in 1960 to over 35% in 2017. [9]
The prison was opened in 1991 and is named after the Michigan Department of Corrections's first director, Gus Harrison. [1] On August 9, 2009, Parr Highway Correctional Facility was consolidated into Gus Harrison Correctional Facility. [2] In early 2021, the facility was fined $6,300 over serious violations of Coronavirus regulations. [3]
A variety of bags are used by households to recycle waste made from different materials. Recycling has been an increasing emphasis for waste disposal in Japan since recycling acts were passed in the 1990s. [1] In 2014, the Resource Recycle Rate, the ratio of total material inputs into the economy and the amount recycled into raw inputs was 15.8%.