It’s a rubbish bin. The one (that should) be under my computer desk is a waste paper basket.
McDonald’s replaced the word TRASH on their in-store bins with RUBBISH or WASTE (I think) a few years ago, after the local English Nazis made an outcry about it. We don’t use the word trash as a noun, but it’s common as a verb (eg. what rock stars do to hotel rooms).
What you call a dumpster we call a skip in the UK. But this has to be qualified. A skip is the sort of thing you can hire for a few days when you want to clear away a lot of rubbish (say when your moving house). The thing is left on your driveway for a few days, you fill it up, then it’s taken away. Average cost, getting on for £100. This is the sort of thing I mean :- skip
Yeah, they’re skips here too. Sometimes “rubbish skip” is used. Same deal - hire for a day or three.
Ditto
Hmmm, maybe it’s a generational thing. I grew up living all over the country, but several times in NYC. That is where my mother was born.
In any case, I always called it a “garbage pail” too, until later years when began to get funny looks.
Of course, Microsoft had to call it a “recycle bin” as they stole the idea from Apple.
Garbage bin.
Waste basket under the desk and in the bathrooms.
Kitchen tidy in the kitchen (!)
Used to be the rubbish bin outside until it was replaced by a wheely bin, called Otto.
But you only need to buy the vowels! Guess the consonants and put the vowels on layaway. Worked for my grandfather - a poor immigrant who came to this country with nothing but a dream and the shirt on his back. Look at him now - full English vocabulary with nouns, pronouns, adverbs and everything.
Garbage pail was only used for the bucket some farmers threw food scraps into for the animals the next day.
Most people I know just say garbage or waste. Throw this in the waste, please.
Garbage can refered to the 55 gallon trash recepticals that you put by the road for pick up years ago.
Trash bin or bin are the new sorted pick up devices for trash.
I just call it The Garbage. “Babe, toss that in The Garbage while you’re headed that way.” “Oops! We forgot to take out The Garbage.”
“Dumpster” has become a generic word, but originally it referred only to the Dempster Dumpster®, a patented bin that a special truck would pick up and dump into the truck. Now, it means any kind of trash bin that can be picked up by a truck. They range from the little ones http://scottnath.com/past/03-10-unsung2.shtml that a truck dumps and puts back to these huge ones that must be winched onto a truck and taken to the landfill.
http://www.crash.com/people/michael/LifeInNYC/dumpster.html
In the U.K. its a dustbin.(though its for rubbish not dust)
Not according to Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, 11th edition, or the International Trademark Association, which both still list “Dumpster” as a registered trademark. The Wikipedia article on Dumpsters includes the USPTO registration numbers.
If the recptacle has food waste in it, or any refuse that decomposes, rots or smells, it’s Garbage. If it merely has paper and plastic waste, it’s Trash.
Small waste containers in bedrooms and bathrooms are either wastebaskets or trash cans.
Larger recepatacles are Garbage Cans, or The Garbage.
What Cazzle said. ‘Trash’ is a term I never use natively - only when I think it is necessary for the comprehension of the listener/reader.