Examples of dustbin

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Peeking around the kitchen door, they saw rubbish being emptied from dustbins into their home.
In between the time the dustbins are put out and the truck arrives, the pickers have been through the contents of the bins.
Unfortunately, the general public is not yet as aware of these technical achievements as they are about the waste they dispose of in their dustbins each week.
The section might otherwise be very difficult to work in cases where, for example, the defendant(s) were engaged in kicking over dustbins on an estate.
We can no longer treat the atmosphere above us like a dustbin, and the seas around us like a sewer.
A dustbin of mass 20 kg is placed on a path which is at an angle of 13° to the horizontal.
Instead of serving its original purpose, in such circumstances it can end up as little more than an elevated dustbin for complaints against the state.
The old-fashioned image of the chiropodist as a trimmer of toenails and a parer of corns has been confined to the dustbin of history.
He may get muddled, and perhaps put dirty clothes into the oven instead of the washing machine, or food into the dustbin instead of the saucepan.
In urban areas, again, fencing is a good idea to keep out foxes as well as minimising the attractants such as using a fox-proof dustbin to stop access to food.
We must oblige shipowners to withdraw these floating dustbins as a matter of urgency, and compel them to adhere to stricter technical and social codes of practice.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
She is 100% right: feed must not serve as the dustbin for waste producers.
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Specifically, we want it to be possible for small appliances, which can easily be thrown into the dustbin, to be handed in free of charge.
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European marine waters, as indeed international waters, have often become the dustbin for waste of varying quantities and levels of toxicity.
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Does that mean we should consign that embryo-human being to the dustbin rather than using it for scientific research?
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