Waste collector
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"Garbage collector" redirects here. For the computer science concept, see Garbage collection (computer science).
A waste collector, also known as:
| UK English | US English |
|---|---|
| Dustbin man | Garbage man |
| Bin man | Garbage collector |
| Dustman | Trash collector |
| Refuse collector | Sanitation engineer |
| Rubbish collector | Garbo (Australian) |
is a person employed by a municipality/local authority or by a private company who goes to houses and/or businesses collecting and taking away waste from waste containers and sending it for recycling or to a landfill, incinerator or other waste facility.
Waste collection vehicles allow them to transport compacted waste with ease.
[edit] Notable waste collectors
- Boy George - Community service
- Garbageman - From Dilbert
- Garbageman - From Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
- Georgi Ivanov - footballer
- Michael Carroll - National Lottery winner
- Mike Droese - Wrestler
- Richard Leiterman - Cinematographer
- Steve Hutchins - Politician
- Louie Wilson (Scatman Crothers) of Chico and the Man - "Stick out your can, 'cause here comes the garbage man!"
- Hannah Jones - "You gotta love a bit of garbage!"
On one of their early live albums, The Irish Rovers sang this variant on an old song, the first verse of which is:
- My old man's a dustman
- He wears a dustman's hat
- He wears cor-"blimey" trousers
- And he lives in a Council flat
- He looks so proper, done up
- In his great big hobnail boots
- He has such a time to pull 'em up
- That he calls 'em daisy roots
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