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Rumpke’s team of everyday environmentalists are out pre-dawn collecting trash and recyclables. Collected materials make their way to Rumpke’s highly engineered regional landfills or state-of-the-art recycling facilities each day. But sometimes, trash and recycling make a pit stop at a transfer station before reaching their final destination. A transfer station is a place where residential, commercial, and industrial garbage trucks drop off waste material to be consolidated into larger trailers for transport to central landfills or recycling facilities. Because of transfer stations, fewer vehicle miles are traveled to transport materials to out-of-county destinations, reducing carbon footprint. It’s far more efficient to have transfer stations serve as mini-hubs rather than having every Rumpke truck haul all the way to landfills and recycling facilities and back