Waste management equipment includes garbage trucks, dumpsters, trash cans, and compactors. Different types of waste require specific equipment and treatments. Garbage trucks come in various types, including front loaders, rear loaders, side loaders, pneumatic collectors, and tire collection trucks. Other equipment includes reprocessing and recycling machines. Landfills are used for non-reusable waste and often destroyed through incineration.
There are many different types of waste management equipment, mostly involving the transfer and compaction of waste. Waste includes anything from trash found in household trash cans to toxic waste produced by chemical plants. Different types of waste require specific equipment and treatments, due to the variation of the type of waste and the safety of the substance treated. The most common type of waste management equipment is the garbage truck, which is used to move waste for storage and compaction. Waste management equipment tends to be harmful to many aspects of life, including health and aesthetics.
While waste management equipment includes incredibly complicated machines, it also consists of much simpler equipment, such as trash cans, which come in a wide variety of shapes and sizes. Small, simple cans made mostly of plastic are commonly found in homes. Larger cans are used for public and industrial purposes, where larger volumes of waste need to be contained. These cans often have lids or some sort of overhead cover, which is mostly used for odor containment or aesthetic purposes. Almost all trash cans use trash bags, which allow you to easily remove the trash.
In non-residential waste management processes, waste is usually stored in a large dumpster. Dumpsters are fully enclosed and usually have a removable top or small hatch for depositing waste. Many dumpsters also have drain holes near the bottom to drain excess liquid from the collected trash as it decomposes. After a certain amount of time, a garbage truck will pick up the trash using mechanized forks that fit into slots on either side of a dumpster. The forks then pick up the dumpster and dump the waste inside it into the truck.
Garbage trucks come in several varieties to accommodate different types of dumpsters or, in some circumstances, managed waste. Typically, however, garbage trucks are identified by how they load their garbage. There are front loaders, rear loaders, side loaders, pneumatic collectors and trucks. Front, rear and side loaders load waste exactly as the name suggests: from the front, rear or side. This is usually done through mechanized forklifts that lift the overturned bins onto the truck, which pushes the trash out.
Tire collection trucks handle waste somewhat like a vacuum cleaner. In some situations, waste is stored underground in liquefied form, such as sewage and chemical waste. These types of garbage trucks have a crane with a large hose attached. This tube can be connected to an opening in the ground and any liquid stored underneath is drawn in through a vacuum. Bucket trucks, on the other hand, are used for the collection of large quantities of solid waste; these also have cranes, but instead of a hose, they have a large gripping “claw”.
Other types of waste management equipment include trash compactors, which are found in the back of most garbage trucks and in nearly all waste treatment plants. Other equipment may include reprocessing and recycling machines that recover and combine raw materials for reuse. More commonly, however, waste is stored in landfills. Because garbage in landfills is often non-reusable, it is typically completely destroyed through incineration.
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