Dumpster

[3][4] The word "dumpster", first used commercially in 1936,[5] came from the Dempster-Dumpster system of mechanically loading the contents of standardized containers onto garbage trucks, which was patented by Dempster Brothers in 1935.

[13] Many businesses, apartment buildings, schools, offices, and industrial sites have one or more dumpsters, generally ranging from 0.5 to 8 cubic yards (0.38 to 6.12 m3), to store the waste that they generate.

[14][15] Waste storage containers can be made from a wide variety of materials, including steel and fiberglass.

For example, heavy materials like bricks or stones should be placed in smaller dumpsters so the loaded container does not exceed weight limits for transportation.

[18] The company is notable for popularizing the word dumpster in the United States, which eventually became a generic trademark.

The Dempster Dumpmaster, introduced in the 1950s,[19] was the first commercially successful, front-loading garbage truck in the United States.

The product uses the Dempster-Dumpster system of mechanically emptying standardized metal containers, which had been patented by the company in 1937.

A rearward-traveling compacting panel compressed the garbage stored in the truck and was also used to push it out through a door at the back when it was being emptied.