Talk:Tag:amenity=waste transfer station

Deprecate

Only 400 objects after 5 years, this feature is practially unused and should be replaced by amenity=recycling+recycling_type=centre.--Jojo4u (talk) 12:33, 26 June 2015 (UTC)

I dont agree it should be deprecated. There is a distinct difference between a waste transfer station that mostly manages waste trucks weighing and dumping their contents, compared with recycling centres that are open to the public and allow people to bring stuff in their cars. Please lets keep that difference. Pmackay (talk) 17:31, 5 July 2015 (UTC)

Could you please edit the wiki accordingly?--Jojo4u (talk) 21:32, 5 July 2015 (UTC)

Have made some updates to clarify. OK to remove the Deprecate notice? Pmackay (talk) 08:31, 7 July 2015 (UTC)

Ok. One of us could reference it also from amenity=recycling.--Jojo4u (talk) 16:41, 7 July 2015 (UTC)

Something that doesn't fit here or recycling

I asked about a mid-level transfer station. Something that would be used by consumers, and would accept non-recycled trash (primarily). I was told to use this tag, but the talk above suggests this is not the appropriate tag for this need. Is there such a tag in usage somewhere ? --NitaRae (talk) 15:43, 10 September 2020 (UTC)

Almost five years later and I don't see any change, and you're right, I think this is a hole in the tagging. In my part of the world we somewhat euphemistically call these "convenience centers." They are very distinct from transfer stations. A convenience center will never have truckloads showing up dropping off truck-sized quantities of waste, they are exclusively for regular non-commercial citizens to self-service drop off household trash and other waste (because there is generally no municipal collection in the rural US, at least). In fact, in most in my area, the municipality's multiple convenience centers will have their containers dumped at a central transfer station, where it's then centralized into semitrucks for transit to the regional landfill. Perhaps this really needs some sort of amenity=waste_convenience_center tag? I feel like less regional and more general terms for this might be "waste collection center" or "waste drop-off center", and probably favor the first myself. --Chuck (talk) 13:23, 8 May 2025 (UTC)

For the functionality, it's basically a facility as an area of amenity=waste_disposal ? In general, OSM doesn't have areas for individual equipment, while amenity=recycling has recycling_type=* for both.
—— Kovposch (talk) 08:53, 9 May 2025 (UTC)

To provide maximum clarity for this satellite facility ... It is open three days per week. When it is not open, the container units are inside a fenced enclosure and items may not be left outside the fence. When it is open, there is an attendant present. There are two large containers, one is for cardboard+pasteboard, and the other is for bags of household trash. The household trash container has a hydraulic compression ram, so that the attendant can push more into the storage section, and make it as compact as possible. A large truck, that uses a winch mechanism, will pull one or the other of the containers on to it, and drive them to the county's central solid waste facility (about 12 miles away). There, the household trash container will be combined with other similar contents and trucked to a regional landfill about 60 miles distant. The container used for cardboard recycling will be combined (at central solid waste) with other cardboard recycling, banded, and stored under an open shed until a flatbed arrives to take them to a used cardboard processor (somewhere). There has been some attempts to recycle plastic, newspaper, and aluminum, but they are only collected separately at one satellite station and at central solid waste. The reason, as told to me, is "there's no money in it". The county has 4-5 other satellite collection stations that operate on the same basis as the one I'm describing. The enclosed facility with attendant, replaces several other less successful arrangements, going back over 30 years. To sum up, it is a formal arrangement, it has operating hours, and it has certain modalities involving transfer. --NitaRae (talk) 14:39, 9 May 2025 (UTC)