The City calls them "poly carts". Seems good enough for me. Trash cans were big metal cans, slightly smaller than a 50 gal. drum but with a stamped sheet metal lid.Here in the Mid-Atlantic region MD/DC/VA we've only ever just called them "trash cans", wheels or not.
Dumpsters are those big metal things behind a business that takes the truck with big forks to empty.
Trash cans are for houses. Dumpsters are big multi-cubic-yard boxes that businesses use. I've lived in the Midwest for most of my life and never heard the small ones called anything but trash cans (or bins).
Maybe it's just a Toledo thing?
Sad but true. Sad because it's true.
No, that's just "Please take the trash out."
And if you want to pick nits, Dumpster is a trademark for a particular brand of those things, like Kleenex and Vaseline.
Here in the Mid-Atlantic region MD/DC/VA we've only ever just called them "trash cans", wheels or not.
Dumpsters are those big metal things behind a business that takes the truck with big forks to empty.
They used to be. But few are now. I did a quick internet search. Nearly every "trash can" and "garbage can" that comes up is plastic.I've heard bins, but trash cans are metal.
They used to be. But few are now. I did a quick internet search. Nearly every "trash can" and "garbage can" that comes up is plastic.
Do you know how hard it is to throw away an old garbage can????
I had an old metal, beat up, cracked at the bottom, one handle broken off garbage can that took me three months to throw away (well, maybe three weeks, but it seemed longer). I'd put it out in the plastic bin and somehow it would still be at the edge of the road the next afternoon. Empty, but still there, mocking me. I did that several times. Apparently they thought I was using it as a liner for the plastic bin Finally I had to crush it and put it in the recycling bin. Then they got the hint...
I have also followed this same path to get rid of a dead metal can.Do you know how hard it is to throw away an old garbage can????
I had an old metal, beat up, cracked at the bottom, one handle broken off garbage can that took me three months to throw away (well, maybe three weeks, but it seemed longer). I'd put it out in the plastic bin and somehow it would still be at the edge of the road the next afternoon. Empty, but still there, mocking me. I did that several times. Apparently they thought I was using it as a liner for the plastic bin Finally I had to crush it and put it in the recycling bin. Then they got the hint...
Nope. There didn't seem to be any bias of round versus square. The shape seemed to be irrelevant.But I bet they "Are Round and Not Square?"
I had two such metal cans when I moved into my current home. When I called the trash service I told them that the first pickup would be in two metal cans with a great big on them. Trash the cans as well please.Do you know how hard it is to throw away an old garbage can????
I had an old metal, beat up, cracked at the bottom, one handle broken off garbage can that took me three months to throw away (well, maybe three weeks, but it seemed longer). I'd put it out in the plastic bin and somehow it would still be at the edge of the road the next afternoon. Empty, but still there, mocking me. I did that several times. Apparently they thought I was using it as a liner for the plastic bin Finally I had to crush it and put it in the recycling bin. Then they got the hint...
The last time I saw a round metal garbage can was in the 60's.
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