The word garbage container, which was used commercially for the first time in 1936, comes from the Dempster-Dumpster system of mechanically loading the contents of standardized containers into garbage trucks, which was patented by Dempster Brothers in 1935. The containers were called garbage containers, a combination of the company's name with the word dumped. George Dempster, born in 1887 to Scottish and Irish immigrant parents, founded a construction company in Knoxville, Tennessee, in the early 1930s with his brothers Thomas and John. In 1935, George patented his invention, which used a hydraulic lift to lift large, shallow buckets and transport them. By combining the word “garbage dump” with his name, he coined the word dumpster.
While there have been people, there has also been waste. However, the European colonization of the Americas in the 15th century caused an increase in population and a large amount of waste that people buried, piled up or burned. In 1935, Dempster brothers George and Thomas decided that the world needed a system to efficiently collect, transport and dispose of waste. So they developed a device and called it Dempster Dumpster.
With such a catchy name, it's no wonder that the term dumpster became synonymous with large garbage bins. Dumpster is the name given to a large metal garbage container in North America (including the United States and Canada). Outside the United States, the container is called a container container or front load container. A disadvantage of early dumpster systems was that, after picking up a container, the truck had to take it to a landfill and empty it before it could pick up another container.
Nowadays, there are many dumpster rental services throughout Northern New Jersey and across the United States.
