Dumpster®, also known as dumpster for purposes of taking the symbol out in case it confuses search terms, is a trademarked item.
Is there a word that is the generic equivalent, such as in-line skates for Rollerblades®, photocopy for Xerox®, or tissue for Kleenex®? Specifically, an item that functions as a Dumpster® does, and which can differentiated from the average trash can.
Please advise.
Trash bin.
Bart: Otto-Man? You’re living in a dumpster?
Otto: Ho, man, I wish. Dumpster-brand trash bins are top-of-the-line. This is just a Trash-Co waste disposal unit.
Either “trash bins” or “waste disposal units” appear to be acceptable. According to Otto.
The trademark is “Dumpster.” The registration symbol is not mandatory, and, indeed, is not considered part of what the company has registered as a trademark, so you don’t have to use it if you’re worried about confusing the search function.
The Dumpster is not a trademarked item. The term “Dumpster” is a trademarked term. Things can’t be trademarked. Only terms referring to things can be trademarked. If you find it necessary to indicate its registration status, you can say that “Dumpster” is a registered trademark.
trash bin, waste bin
waste receptacle
You can modify any of the above suggestions with the adjective “large.”
How about “generic Dumpster”?
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For trademark stuff, look here. I do not care. I’m just seeking a term that distinguishes one type of rubbish bin from the rest. “Large” might work.
I am pretty damn sure that no one ever uses the term “Trash bin” for a small object that can be carried by one person. Rubbish bin, yes, but not “trash bin”
During a neighborhood cleanup weekend, the city said they would provide refuse containers. I’ve also seen “roll-off container”
But really, how many companies make these things?
Well, following your handy link, I used the P.T.O.'s search function to look up the actual trademark in question and I found that the owner of the mark (strangely enough called “Dempster Bros.”) describes its product as a “container for receiving, transporting, and dumping materials of various kinds–namely, refuse, trash, garbage, scrap, dirct, and rocks.”
That description offers a number of possibilities – “large refuse container” sounds good to me.
[url=http://www.inta.org/tmcklst1.htm]INTA[/url (the International Trademark Association) is also your friend. It gives proper styling of hundreds of trademarks, along with the generic terms preferred by the trademark holders.
Crap. INTA
And … Inta says – Dumpster trash containers, hoisting units
Hobo Hotel?
Short Haul Trash Transporter – To the compactor – To the land fill.
Sometimes just for storage for compactor to come to it.
After all it is just a big metal trash container with hinged lid and maybe doors.
"Short Haul Trash Transporter"
Now if they only had put the word ‘Integrated’ between ‘Trash’ and ‘Haul’, it would have made the ultimate acronym.
In England we call it a skip. I do not know why.
We call it a skip in Australia as well. I suspect that Skip may be, or have been, a brand name of some sort.
NO, NO!
That’s already taken by Tennessee Institute of Technology!
I’m pretty sure that “skip” has a specialised meaning for transportation and nautical purposes, but the two online dictionaries I checked (Merriam-Webster and Dictionary.com) and my desk copy of Webster’s New World weren’t enlightening on this point.