Dumpster

A dumpster is a movable waste container made to be moved away by a special vehicle, or to a bin that a special garbage truck lifts, empties, and puts back quickly. The word is a generic trademark of Dumpster, an American brand name for a specific design. Generic usage of skip, or wheelie bin may be used in other English-speaking countries.

 History 
The word "dumpster" was first used by a company in 1936."Dumpster", U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, trademark registration 0743745, filed Feb. 6, 1962, registered Jan. 15, 1963. The word came from the Dempster-Dumpster system of putting the contents of a type of container onto garbage trucks, which was patented by Dempster Brothers in 1935. The containers were called Dumpsters, a combination of the company's name with the word dump. The Dempster Dumpmaster, which became the first popular front-loading garbage truck that used this system, popularized the word.

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Category:Waste management