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A Brief History of the Dumpster
How many dogs have chased a garbage truck down the street? And how long have they been chasing them?
Garbage trucks and dumpsters have been around for quite a long time and have been a huge benefit to the
cleanliness of the world we live it. Life would be much more messy if it wasn’t for the invention of the
dumpster.
The dumpster is actually the generic name for this storage device. The dumpster was first patented in the
1930s by the Dempster brothers in Knoxville, TN. The original dumpster was designed to be used by
mechanical arms as well but that process wasn’t perfected until the 50s. In the 1950s the Dempster brothers
patented the first ever garbage truck, called the Dempster Dumpmaster. It is very similar to the front-loading
receptacle that we still use today. Two large metal arms grab the standardized metal container, lift it over the
cab and tip it into the hopper. Then a rearward travelling compactor compressed the garbage stored in the
truck. This same compactor also helped push the garbage out the back of the truck when it was emptied.
Take a Look at:Dumpsters
The term “dumpster” is just a generic word referring to any large metal waste receptacle of its type. There
are a wide variety of the “dumpster,” but the actual dumpster is a proper brand name. Just as many people
refer to tissues as Kleenexes. The brand doesn’t exist in Great Britain and Australia though they still refer to
them as dumpsters sometimes. They are also known as “wheelie bin” or “skips.” The proper name for these
type of receptacles is a frontloader container.
Dumpsters have become a very common useful object over the past 80 years. Dumpsters can be found at
many businesses, apartment complexes, schools, offices, and other industrial sites. Many of these locations
will have multiple dumpsters to help maintain the cleanliness. People empty their trash from inside the
buildings into the frontloader containers. A garbage truck normally empties these dumpsters once a week on
a routine pickup. The garbage truck normally takes the rubbish to a trash fill or to get incinerated.
Take a Look at:Dumpsters
A dumpster seems like such a simple invention but the Dempster Brothers patented an invention that has
been introduced all over the world. A variety of frontloader containers have been invented to make the junk
hauling process easier, but the initial credit for the invention will date back to 1937 in Tennessee when the
brothers first patented their container that provides a cleaner environment for everyone.