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Garbage in a 'Clean City' garbage can in Volzhskiy, Volgograd Oblast, Russia.
Collected garbage at Attero, Wijster, the Netherlands.
Litter dumped in a wetland area in the United States, among water lilies and marsh plants.

Garbage, trash, rubbish, or refuse is waste material that is discarded by humans, usually due to a perceived lack of utility. The term generally does not encompass bodily waste products, purely liquid or gaseous wastes, or toxic waste products. Garbage is commonly sorted and classified into kinds of material suitable for specific kinds of disposal.

Terminology

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  1. Susan Strasser, Waste and Want: A Social History of Trash (2014), p. 6-7.