Sentence examples for waste stations from inspiring English sources

On average, people living near the waste stations had a median income in 2009 of about $40,000, compared with a city median of $50,000.

The waste stations have long been a grievance for residents of the South Bronx and Greenpoint and Williamsburg in Brooklyn, where most of the stations are clustered.

City officials said they would also impose tighter rules on how commercial waste stations operate in order to reduce pollution, odor and traffic in affected neighborhoods.

The Upper East Side is one of the city's wealthiest areas, they say, and the sanitation plan is intended to redress the disproportionate number of waste stations in poorer neighborhoods.

The waste stations are used to unload trash from garbage trucks and transfer it to other trucks that then take it for disposal outside the city, usually in landfills.

But the study, which assumed that if the waste stations were not active in those locations, other industrial operations would be, concluded that the "geographical proximity" of the transfer stations does "not cause adverse combined or cumulative" environmental effects.

The city said the waste station would be in operation by 2015.

The proposal seems to ignore one simple fact, which is the effect that the waste station would have on public health.

At each waste station as well as recycling opportunities, there is a compost bin where employees can dispose of any raw or cooked food.

At almost every work station there is a small sign saying this is a "zero waste space" meaning that the employee has volunteered to give up their individual bin in favour of using the centralised waste station where the company has found they tend to recycle more and trash less.

This included a redevelopment project at Drayton Park, converting the existing ground Highbury as flats and building a new waste station in Lough Road.