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A DumpsterĀ® is a large trash receptacle, and a type of mobile garbage bin or MGB. Picture of a dumpster File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Picture of a dumpster File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Trash can refer to any of the following Waste, unwanted or undesired material left over after the completion of a process. ... A wheelie bin is a type of dustbin. ...


In British and Australian English, the term skip is more commonly used (although they are not perfect synonyms). In some other countries the more descriptive term frontloader container is often used, either in one or two words. Australian English (AuE) is the form of the English language used in Australia. ... Rubbish skip on skip-carrier lorry The word skip is used for various large open-topped containers, including the load-carrying container part of a dumper. ... Synonyms (in ancient Greek syn συν = plus and onoma όνομα = name) are different words with similar or identical meanings. ...


Many businesses, apartment buildings, offices, and industrial sites will have one or multiple dumpsters to store the waste that they generate. Dumpsters are emptied by front-loading garbage trucks. These trucks have large prongs on the front which are aligned and inserted into arms (or slots) on the dumpster. Hydraulics then lift the prongs and the dumpster, eventually flipping the Dumpster upside-down and emptying its contents into the truck's hopper (storage compartment). A typical front loader garbage truck in North America A garbage truck, known as a dustcart or dustbin wagon in the United Kingdom, is a truck specially designed to haul waste to landfills and other recycling / disposal facilities. ...


The word Dumpster came from the Dempster-Dumpster system of mechanically loading the contents of standardised containers onto garbage trucks, which was patented by Dempster Brothers in the 1930s. The containers were called Dumpsters, a portmanteau of the company's name with the word dump. However, it took the Dempster Dumpmaster, the first successful front-loading garbage truck (and which used this system), to popularise the word. The word is a trademark[1] of the Krug International Corporation, but today it is often used as a generic word. Dempster Brothers, Inc, of Knoxville, Tennessee, is an industrial firm that makes garbage-handling vehicles including the following: Dempster Dumpmaster Dempster Dinosaur External links ClassicRefuseTrucks. ... 1930 is a common year starting on Wednesday. ... A portmanteau (plural: portmanteaux or portmanteaus) is a word that is formed by combining both sounds and meanings from two or more words. ... The Dempster Dumpmaster, introduced in the 1950s was the first commercially successful front loading garbage truck. ... A trademark (Commonwealth English: trade mark)[1] is a distinctive sign of some kind which is used by a business to identify itself and its products and services to consumers, and to set the business and its products or services apart from those of other businesses. ... A genericized trademark (Commonwealth English genericised trade mark), sometimes known as a generic trade mark, generic descriptor or proprietary eponym, is a trademark or brand name which has become synonymous with the general or formal term for a particular type of product or service, to the extent that it often...


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Dumpster diving - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (988 words)
Dumpster diving, also called "dumpstering," or "trashing," is the practice of rummaging through trash, whether commercial or residential, to find useful free items that have been discarded.
Dumpstering can be something someone does on the spur of the moment if they see a useful item being thrown away, a conscious lifestyle choice as a part of freeganism, or a skill acquired by those who may not have many other options to obtain needed goods or food.
Because dumpsters are usually located on private property, dumpster diving is illegal in some parts of the United States, though in many places the relevant laws do not seem to be very vigorously enforced.
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