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...pulper, where they will get, well, pulped. The resulting slurry will be pumped to the first-floor extractor, in which it is dehydrated and turned into a material resembling sawdust. The remaining "food dust" is then dumped into a biodegradable trash bag to be consolidated in a trash compactor, then hauled to a commercial facility that sends the scraps to a composting yard...
...warm Friday afternoon in June, about 50,000 boxes of toothpaste got their last squeeze inside an industrial trash compactor in Homestead, Fla. They were yanked from the shelves of discount stores and bathroom cabinets after a nationwide recall warned that the toothpaste contained a chemical, diethylene glycol, that could lead to kidney failure. Francisco Botta, who distributed the toothpaste for his family's wholesale business in Miami, stocked his warehouse bathroom with the stuff. "I used it every day," he says. "I told everybody to stop...
...tough to spread yourself over 49 glossy pages. But if you start stockpiling flattering photos and delightful witticisms today, I promise that you’ll have a quality publication ready for release before Oh So Fresh! has even made its way to the bottom of the trash compactor...
...Craig Jones has just finished dumping 400 trash cans' worth of garbage into the Cincinnati Textile Building's basement compactor. The weighty refuse he carries each night hardly fazes Jones after five years on the job, but the grime he has to scrub off dirty wastebaskets still gets to him a little. "Wiping spit is a tough thing to get used to," he says. Jones, 27, earns $6.50 an hour without benefits, vacation time or sick days. His employer, Professional Maintenance, a cleaning contractor, usually schedules him for just four hours a night, five nights a week, so Jones' biweekly...
...sentence. Go ahead, count. 3. When you hear the baptism reference while the brothers are in prison. Actually, take six shots, you dirty heathen. 4. Every time Willem Dafoe, playing a cop, reminds you of a J. Crew model that’s been run through a trash compactor. 5. Every time Dafoe mocks someone by assuming a false accent. 6. Every time Dafoe does his police work with loud, melodramatic classical music in the background. 7. Every time Dafoe sends the incompetent Boston-PD detective for coffee. 8. OK, we can’t name...