Drum (container)
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A drum is a cylindrical shipping container used for shipping bulk cargo. Drums can be made of steel, dense paperboard, or plastic, and are generally used for the transportation and storage of liquids
A typical 200-litre (55 US or 44 imp gal) tight head drum
Low level nuclear waste in open head steel drums.
Drum pumps on drums
Filling oil drum, 1914
Valley of the Drums
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The Valley of the Drums, officially known as the A.L. Taylor Superfund Site, is a 23-acre toxic waste site near Brooks in northern Bullitt County, Kentucky, near Louisville, named after the waste-cont
Drum (container)
…placed in drums of this size and stored in open fields or buried. Over time, some drums would corrode and leak. As a result, these drums have become iconic of pollution problems, even though they have numerous uses and are ubiquitous in commerce. Tests have shown that a leaking 55-gallon drum can disperse…
The Valley of the Drums, c. 1980 (credit: EPA)