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  2. Great Pacific Garbage Patch - Wikipedia

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    The Great Pacific Garbage Patch (also Pacific trash vortex and North Pacific Garbage Patch [1]) is a garbage patch, a gyre of marine debris particles, in the central North Pacific Ocean. It is located roughly from 135°W to 155°W and 35°N to 42°N . [ 2 ]

  3. 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 ...

  4. List of waste types - Wikipedia

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    This page was last edited on 3 December 2024, at 07:12 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply.

  5. Garbage truck - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. Trump Nearly Face-Plants On A Garbage Truck During A ... - AOL

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    Trump’s trashy photo-op comes after a comic at his campaign rally in New York City on Sunday called Puerto Rico a “floating island of garbage,” leading to multiple high-profile Latino stars ...

  7. North Atlantic garbage patch - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 1 February 2025. Large floating field of debris in the North Atlantic Ocean The North Atlantic Gyre is one of five major ocean gyres. The North Atlantic garbage patch is a garbage patch of man-made marine debris found floating within the North Atlantic Gyre, originally documented in 1972. A 22-year ...

  8. Bin lorries will check for rubbish phone signal - AOL

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    Tracking devices on the lorries will help create a map of areas where signal is poor.

  9. Waste - Wikipedia

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    In McElvaney's photos, kids in fields burning refrigerators and computers with blackened hands and trashed clothes and animals, such as cows with open wounds, in the dumpsite. There are piles of waste used as makeshift bridges over lakes, with metals and chemicals just seeping into the water and groundwater that could be linked to homes' water ...