Waste Transferring Principle
Nobody would consider not to have a kitchen garbage bin, but instead go to the larger bin in their courtyard every time a small amount of waste must be disposed of. That would take time and time is valuable for most people. No, everybody would dump their waste in the kitchen garbage bin in small amounts until it is filled up and then “transfer” the content of this bin to the larger bin in their courtyard. Think of the kitchen garbage bin being a Waste Transfer Station and the larger bin in the courtyard being a waste disposal site – a landfill or an incineration plant. Think of this when deciding whether to implement a Waste Transfer Station or none at all. Waste Transfer Stations in general are time- and money savers.
Nobody would consider either throwing waste in their kitchen garbage bin horizontally. No, everybody dumps it straight down and pack it with their hands to avoid going too often to the larger bin in the courtyard. Easy and convenient. Think of this when you will have to decide whether to construct a Waste Transfer Station using the Horizontal OR the Vertical principle.
The Horizontal principle uses steel beam reinforced square containers. Why reinforced ? Because when the waste is packed – or compressed – into a square container, the compressing forces impacts all parts of the inside of the container and these forces will tend to make the square container round. Reinforcements are expensive and they are heavy. Why not avoid them and replace their weight with content – with waste in the container? By making the container round in the first place, these reinforcements are not needed.
The Horizontal principle also uses a waste-chamber from where the waste dumped by the collection trucks is pushed and compacted into the square container. Both the waste-chamber and the pusher are costly and they take up quite a bit of space. Furthermore the waste can only be pushed into the square container by using “artificial” power – by using electricity. If the electricity fails: Problems – the waste cannot be pushed into the container and cannot be transferred to the disposal site. Why not replace the waste-chamber and the pusher with other means ?