transfer station

noun

1. a place where residential garbage and commercial wastes are compressed, baled, and loaded on vehicles for moving to disposal sites, as for landfill.

transfer station

noun

1. a municipal depot where rubbish is sorted for recycling or relocation to a landfill site

Example Sentences

When developers announced plans for a new 38-bay diesel truck transfer station on the grounds of a long-abandoned K-Mart department store, East Portland, Oregon, residents who’d hoped it might become a grocery store instead quickly collected more than 6,600 signatures in opposition and worked to stop it.

From Salon

Other artifacts the site may cough up — old bricks, cobblestones and rocks, sometimes accompanied by irresistible castoffs retrieved from the transfer station — become part of the improvised mosaics.

From Seattle Times

Nor is the new Northeast Recycling & Transfer Station that King County is considering for my residential neighborhood feasible.

From Seattle Times

Neighbors have put up with these impacts for years, believing the county’s promise that the Houghton Transfer Station would close and a new facility would replace it.

From Seattle Times

Electronics should be disposed of at the SPU North Transfer Station, via a special item pickup, or at E-cycle locations.

From Seattle Times

Related Words

• depot
• junkyard