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rubbish




1 rubbish in your house
2 rubbish in public places
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ENVIRONMENT

1 rubbish in your house
- things that you do not want any more are rubbish (AmE garbage, trash)(noun U), (formal) refuse (noun U)
When do they collect the rubbish? domestic refuse
- old, useless things that do not have much value: junk (noun U)
We got rid of a lot of junk when we moved house.
- to get rid of a thing that you do not want: throw* sth away/out, (more informal) chuck sth away/out, (formal) dispose of sth; noun (U): disposal (of sth)
Don't throw that away, I haven't finished with it. Shall I chuck out these old shoes? Please dispose of these batteries safely.
- a container that you put rubbish in (usually kept in the kitchen): bin
- a large container for rubbish (usually kept outside the house): dustbin (AmE garbage can, trashcan)
- a bag that you put inside a dustbin: dustbin liner, dustbin bag
- a basket or other container in which you put paper, etc that is to be thrown away: waste-paper basket, waste-paper bin (AmE waste-basket, wastebin)
- a person whose job is to empty dustbins and remove rubbish: dustman (plural dustmen)
- a kind of lorry that is used for collecting rubbish from dustbins: dustcart (AmE garbage truck)
- a place where rubbish is left: (rubbish) tip, rubbish dump, refuse tip
We took the old fridge to the tip.

2 rubbish in public places
- pieces of paper, packets, etc that are dropped in a public place: litter (noun U)
- if you drop litter, you litter a place
The playground was littered with crisp packets.
- a person who drops litter in a public place: litter lout (AmE litterbug)
Don't be a litter lout!
- a container to put litter in: litter bin
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- a material, food, etc that is not needed and is therefore thrown away: waste (noun U)
household waste the disposal of radioactive waste waste paper
- something that you do not want any more but that is made of material that can be used again: scrap (noun U)
scrap metal Have you got a piece of scrap paper I can write on?
- goods that are made to be used once and then thrown away are disposable
a disposable razor disposable nappies

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