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  2. Skip (container) - Wikipedia

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    An overfilled skip Flyover of 3D modeled satellite photos of a skip hire, Porthmadog, Wales A cantilever skip truck loads a skip. A skip (British English, Australian English, Hiberno-English and New Zealand English) (or skip bin) is a large open-topped waste container designed for loading onto a special type of lorry called a skip truck Typically skip bins have a distinctive shape: the ...

  3. Dumpster - Wikipedia

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    A dumpster is sometimes considered synonymous with a skip. [4] However, there are functional differences between them. A skip is intended to be loaded onto a vehicle and transported to another location. Dumpsters, in contrast, have their contents emptied into a special vehicle, and are seldom moved from their locations. [12]

  4. Cleanaway - Wikipedia

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    Cleanaway's UK subsidiary was the first company ordered to pay compensation to a worker under the Employment Equality (Sexual Orientation) Regulations 2003, after a gay manager quit following persistent harassment from his seniors because of his sexuality. [29]

  5. Waste collection - Wikipedia

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    Waste collection considerations of waste during different types of waste and size of bins, positioning of the bins, and how often bins are to be serviced. Overfilled bins result in rubbish falling out while being tipped. Hazardous rubbish like empty petrol cans can cause fires igniting other trash when the truck compactor is operating.

  6. List of waste management acronyms - Wikipedia

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    WM2 Technical Guidance WM2 Hazardous Waste: Interpretation of the definition and classification of hazardous waste; WMF Waste Management Facility; WML Waste Management Licence (replaced by Environmental Permits) WMP Waste Management Plan; WMPEG Waste Minimisation Performance and Efficiency Grant; WMS Waste Management Strategy

  7. Roll-off (dumpster) - Wikipedia

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    The container is designed to be transported by special roll-off trucks. There are two types of delivery trucks for the bins based on bin size, and they are: Hook lift bins and Roll-off bins. [1] Roll-offs are commonly used to contain loads of construction and demolition waste or other waste types.

  8. Dumpster diving - Wikipedia

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    A person dumpster diving Video of impoverished individuals "dumpster diving" at a neighborhood trash dump in Kabul. Dumpster diving (also totting, [1] skipping, [2] skip diving or skip salvage [3] [4]) is salvaging from large commercial, residential, industrial and construction containers for unused items discarded by their owners but deemed useful to the picker.

  9. ISO 668 - Wikipedia

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    ISO standard 668 hence defines the exact lengths of all standard container sizes on purpose in such a way that shorter containers, joined with the also standard sized twistlocks, can always form longer, combined units of an exact length, identical to that of longer containers, or other combinations, such that the corner castings will always ...