What is the difference?
What is the difference between these words:
trash
garbage
rubbish
waste
Which ones are formal/informal, more/less common, or is there any difference in the meanings?
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Answers · 4
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Trash, Garbage and Rubbish all have the same meaning.
Waste is a bit more generalised.
Trash and Garbage are American phrases, British people would say Rubbish.
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Trash and garbage can mean the place where you put garage in your home/office/etc.
You can say... put this in the garbage but you can't say... put this in the rubbish.
Otherwise they mean all the same when you describe something as garbage, rubbish, or trash.
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