Dumpster is an American brand of trash receptacle, and a type of mobile garbage bin or MGB.
The word Dumpster came from the Dempster-Dumpster system of mechanically loading the contents of standardised containers onto garbage trucks, which was patented by Dempster Brothers in the 1930s. The containers were called Dumpsters, a portmanteau of the company's name with the word dump. However, it took the Dempster Dumpmaster, the first successful front-loading garbage truck (and which used this system), to popularize the word.
The word dumpster has had at least three trademarks associated with it by Dempster Brothers,[1][2][3] but today it is often used as a genericized trademark (see dumpster (term)).
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