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2. Rotopress - Wikipedia

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   The Rotopress is a continuously compacting garbage truck. A massive rotating drum compacts and stores the garbage. [1] The outer edge of the drum acts as the loading hopper, and paddles on the drum convey the waste around an auger of decreasing pitch until it is small enough to be forced through a small ring-shaped gap between the drum and the auger, where it then enters the main section of ...

3. Mack LR - Wikipedia

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   Waste is compressed until the hydraulic packing ram can no longer move. Rear loaders have a large hopper on the rear end. They can load bins, cans, and loose material. A large scooping compactor crushes and scoops refuse into the body. Rear loaders are well known in the waste industry for being the "take all" truck.

4. Mack MC/MR series - Wikipedia

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   The Mack MC/MR series, also known as the "Cruise-Hauler", is a cabover truck first introduced in 1978. [1] It is of a distinct "set back front axle" design (first seen on the Mack FM), with the driver compartment mounted ahead of the front axle and with a large, flat, divided windscreen covering almost half of the truck's frontal aspect.

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. Garbage disposal unit - Wikipedia

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   In the United States, 50% of homes had disposal units as of 2009, [12] compared with only 6% in the United Kingdom [13] and 3% in Canada. [14]In Britain, Worcestershire County Council and Herefordshire Council started to subsidize the purchase of garbage disposal units in 2005, in order to reduce the amount of waste going to landfill and the carbon footprint of garbage runs. [15]

7. 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 ...