How to Use transfer station in a Sentence

transfer station

noun
  • The site would then host a transfer station for trucking trash of the state.
    — Kenneth R. Gosselin, courant.com, 25 May 2021
  • Most of our transfer stations are truck transfers.
    — Fortune Editors, Fortune, 6 Aug. 2025
  • The transfer station near Thomas’ home is one of two in the county.
    — Zayna Syed, The Arizona Republic, 14 Oct. 2021
  • Other household items were thrown away during a trip to the transfer station.
    — Washington Post, 25 Feb. 2018
  • Instead, take them to a landfill or your local waste transfer station.
    — Melissa Locker, Southern Living, 21 Jan. 2026
  • Take those to the transfer station instead for free disposal.
    — Jesse Leavenworth, courant.com, 23 Sep. 2021
  • The courts will take up a section of the park that had been home to a trash transfer station and seaweed composting site.
    — Susannah Bryan, Sun Sentinel, 30 Oct. 2024
  • For many items, proper disposal is as easy as dropping them off at your city or county transfer station.
    — Melanie D.g. Kaplan, Washington Post, 31 Jan. 2023
  • The furniture bank is housed in a shipping container at the town’s transfer station, and items are free.
    — USA TODAY, 3 June 2019
  • Recycle the old oil at a local transfer station, car-repair shop, or auto-parts store.
    — Timothy Dahl, Popular Mechanics, 11 Sep. 2019
  • The foundation runs a private campground that surrounds the former transfer station site on two sides.
    — Zak Podmore, The Salt Lake Tribune, 24 May 2021
  • Work is underway on relocating the gas-transfer station, and it should be done by year end, Schoen said.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 22 June 2022
  • The transfer station is one node in the ceaseless machine that is DSNY.
    — Curbed, 12 Aug. 2022
  • This transfer station caught fire a few years ago, smoldering for nearly two weeks and releasing toxic fumes into the air.
    — Eleanor Beardsley, NPR, 27 May 2026
  • Six counties would use the transfer station, and the county says the plan would help manage waste in response to growth in the area and reduce overhead costs.
    — Mary Helene Hall | [email protected], al, 19 Sep. 2023
  • With the cost of hauling away trash going up and revenue from recyclables falling, the town has increased fees to use the transfer station.
    — Peter Marteka, courant.com, 15 June 2019
  • Firefighters and a public works crew worked Thursday to douse a smoldering brush fire at the transfer station.
    — Jesse Leavenworth, courant.com, 20 Aug. 2020
  • Trash goes to a private waste-transfer station, also in the Bronx, which charges about $100 a ton to accept garbage.
    — Anne Kadet, WSJ, 28 Jan. 2020
  • The waste companies use transfer stations, bring waste from different places together and put it on bigger trucks and take it to a landfill.
    — Dennis Pillion | [email protected], al.com, 20 June 2019
  • But the city’s trash needs have outgrown the old transfer station, which was converted from a garbage shredder built in the 1970s.
    — Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Sep. 2023
  • Those who go to the Custer Road transfer station must bring their most recent water bill from the city and a license with a matching address.
    — Brandi Addison, Dallas News, 21 Dec. 2020
  • That includes Groot paying a franchise fee and property taxes, and a host agreement for the transfer station.
    — Steve Lord, chicagotribune.com, 8 Dec. 2021
  • The free-use days apply to the borough’s main landfill near Palmer as well as eight transfer stations located throughout the region.
    — Amy Bushatz, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Sep. 2023
  • The Century City drop-off center also could include a waste transfer station, as well as storage for snow plows and road salt.
    — Tom Daykin, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 28 Sep. 2021
  • The likely business model would be for consumers to bring their food waste to a town or city disposal site or transfer station where Divert could pick it up.
    — Aaron Pressman, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Mar. 2023
  • Hopeful scavengers descend on the transfer stations scattered around town, where residents take their throw-aways to be trucked to the city landfill on the outskirts of town.
    — Laurel Andrews, Alaska Dispatch News, 19 Oct. 2012
  • Calvert and Prince George’s landfills and Montgomery transfer station closed on Sunday.
    — Washington Post, 4 July 2021
  • And without state funds subsidizing the cost of tipping fees, the transfer station’s rates could rise, Antonacci said.
    — John Moritz, Hartford Courant, 1 Apr. 2026
  • In a hub-and-spoke plan, which DART has long used, routes come together at key points, such as a rail or bus transfer station.
    — Sharon Grigsby, Dallas News, 31 Aug. 2021
  • The waste transfer station in the city remained open longer than usual on the weekend to help residents looking to dispose off vegetative and bulk waste.
    — Arun Sivasankaran, Sun-Sentinel.com, 19 Sep. 2017

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