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Dumpster is an American brand of trash receptacle, and a type of mobile garbage bin or MGB. The term dumpster is also common in Australia although Dumpster is not an established brand. In British and Australian English, the terms wheelie bin or skip are more commonly used (although they are not perfect synonyms). In some other countries the more descriptive term frontloader container is often used, either in one or two words.
Many businesses, apartment buildings, offices, and industrial sites will have one or multiple dumpsters to store the waste that they generate. Dumpsters are emptied by front-loading garbage trucks. These trucks have large prongs on the front which are aligned and inserted into arms (or slots) on the dumpster. Hydraulics then lift the prongs and the dumpster, eventually flipping the Dumpster upside-down and emptying its contents into the truck's hopper (storage compartment).
The word Dumpster came from the Dempster-Dumpster
system of mechanically loading the contents of standardised
containers onto garbage trucks, which was patented by Dempster
Brothers in the 1930s. The containers were called Dumpsters,
a portmanteau of the company's name with the word dump. However,
it took the Dempster Dumpmaster, the first successful front-loading
garbage truck (and which used this system), to popularise
the word. The word dumpster has at least two trademarks associated
with it (USPTO registration numbers 0743745 and 0785783),
but today it is often used as a generic word.
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