rubbish

Example Sentences

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Strikes have led to rubbish piling up, with uncollected waste several feet high in some streets in the first few months, amid complaints of rats, foxes and seagulls tearing open plastic bags.

From BBC

A major waste firm has warned that wrongly discarded vapes are still causing fires in its rubbish trucks and waste facilities, six months on since disposable vapes were banned.

From BBC

Teachers, medical staff and rubbish collectors will all be joining the rolling industrial action which is set to end in a general strike on Wednesday.

From BBC

Residents living near a house which has had rubbish "piled high on the driveway" for months have called on the council to take action.

From BBC

“We’ve condensed it down from three bags of rubbish per week,” she said of the plastic trash volume for her family of six, “to probably two-thirds of one bag.”

From Washington Post