Transfer station (waste management)

Waste management can be a big problem in both urban and rural areas. [<a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9584711">[1]</a>]. Municipal solid waste typically contains a wide variety of materials including discarded containers, packaging, food wastes, and paper products. Municipal solid waste also includes a mixture of putrescible (easily degradable) and nonputrescible (inert) materials. [<a href="http://File:///C:/Users/17572/Downloads/The%20role%20and%20place%20of%20solid%20waste%20t.pdf">File:///C:/Users/17572/Downloads/The role and place of solid waste t.pdf</a>]. In our world today, far more waste is disposed of than reused. [<a href="https://www.annualreviews.org/content/journals/10.1146/annurev-anthro-102214-014146#right-ref-B81">[2]</a>] This is one reason we have transfer stations: to hold waste until we find a more suitable place for it. 

A transfer station, or resource recovery centre, is a building or processing site for the temporary deposition, consolidation and aggregation of <a href="/facts/Waste/qLmtkUQ4">waste</a>.
Transfer stations vary significantly in size and function. Some transfer stations allow residents and businesses to drop off small loads of waste and recycling, and may perform some preliminary sorting of material. Other transfer stations are places where local <a href="/facts/Waste_collection_vehicle/jdh6R5hT">waste collection vehicles</a> will deposit their waste cargo prior to aggregation and loading into larger vehicles. These larger vehicles will transport the waste to the end point of disposal in an <a href="/facts/Incinerator/ALwWqMlv">incinerator</a>, <a href="/facts/Landfill/7K4efGgz">landfill</a>, <a href="/facts/Hazardous_waste/hvbE6Cup">hazardous waste</a> facility, or for <a href="/facts/Recycling/x9X7GAzz">recycling</a>. No long-term storage of waste occurs at a transfer station; waste is quickly consolidated and loaded into a larger vehicle and moved off the site, usually in a matter of hours. [file:///C:/Users/17572/Downloads/The_role_and_place_of_solid_waste_t.pdf]
Transfer stations can be publicly or privately owned. They vary in size, from small regional sites managing less than 1000 tonnes/year to large sites managing over 200,000 tonne/year.
The main reason for using these transfer stations is to reduce the cost of transporting waste to disposal facilities. They are very useful, but a problem with them is finding a place to put these stations. Waste management services are not always properly and equally offered to all inhabitants due to inappropriate resource management approaches, high volumes of urban waste, and ignorant consumption habits. [<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2210670719307176">[3]</a>] 
Scientist and other people are trying to create a transfer station grid designed to handle future realizations and developments. The efficiency of waste transport was analyzed for more than 6000 municipalities. <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959652619316932">[4]</a> Waste is growing faster than the population, so people should explore alternative ways to repurpose their waste for good use.

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