Please define the word 'curbside' for me. Will you? Thanks

[keops]

Dear all
I am working in an environmental study, and the word "curbside" appeared. I am not sure what it is... Is it a sort of "container"?
I look for it in dictionaries, but it is not available... could you please help me?

Thanks in advance

[Conchita]

I had never heard the word myself and by googling it I got:

The side of the trailer equivalent to the passenger side of a vehicle in the United States. I also found this term in one of a company's delivery policies: All items are delivered curbside to the address specified on your invoice. By definition, curbside delivery means that you are required to meet the delivery truck in front of your home, and you are responsible for receiving the product from the truck.

As a Spanish saying goes: You won't go to bed without learning something new.

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Conchita
What a marvellous explanation you gave me!
It is precisly what I needed.
Thanks a lot and, as said in (Argentinean) Spanish... it fits like a ring into my finger!
Cheers, and thanks again...!

[Jamie (K)]

We don't understand "curbside" as having anything to do with a truck or trailer. It really means "at the curb" or "next to the curb". We have curbside recycling in my suburb. That means we put our paper and plastic next to the curb, and it is picked up. We also have curbside garbage pickup.

It's not about a vehicle, but about the location.