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Recent Examples of dustbin
There’s no need to push aside furniture for a thorough clean as this style lies completely flat to slide under beds, sofas, and dining tables, thanks to its front-facing dustbin.
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Maggie Horton, People.com, 19 Nov. 2024
The 15-ounce dustbin pulls free by pressing a lever and opens by pinching the finger indents in the top.
—PCMAG, 28 Oct. 2024
Restoration Games specializes in rescuing great games like this from the dustbins of history.
—Rob Wieland, Forbes, 20 Sep. 2024
Many robot vacuums have automatic dustbin emptying, or a smaller dustbin on the unit itself that automatically empties into a larger dustbin receptacle in the dock — like the Roborock Q5+ Robot Vacuum.
—Katherine Alex Beaven, Peoplemag, 19 Sep. 2024
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Maggie Horton, People.com, 19 Nov. 2024
The 15-ounce dustbin pulls free by pressing a lever and opens by pinching the finger indents in the top.
—PCMAG, 28 Oct. 2024
Restoration Games specializes in rescuing great games like this from the dustbins of history.
—Rob Wieland, Forbes, 20 Sep. 2024
Many robot vacuums have automatic dustbin emptying, or a smaller dustbin on the unit itself that automatically empties into a larger dustbin receptacle in the dock — like the Roborock Q5+ Robot Vacuum.
—Katherine Alex Beaven, Peoplemag, 19 Sep. 2024
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The children found the mercury in a jar at a nearby junkyard.Bebe Hodges, The Enquirer, 28 Nov. 2024
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That could be yet another disruption to an automotive industry that relies on cars mostly heading to the junkyard after 15 years.James Morris, WIRED, 8 Dec. 2024
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Of those hides, only about 40 percent, or around 134 million, get saved from the landfill for leather use.Jennifer Bringle, WWD, 12 Dec. 2024
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Food that ends up in landfills decomposes anaerobically and gives off methane–which over the 20 years after its release is more than 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide in warming our climate.Marianne Krasny, Forbes, 3 Dec. 2024
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Also plugging into the idea of tourism as education, marine biologist Cormac McGinley runs leave-no-trace fossil discovery walks and tours of the Burren’s lunar-like landscape, which take in sea caves, ancient middens, and color-popping anemones.Sarah James, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Nov. 2024
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Although the bones of fish, cattle, sheep and pig were pulled out of the middens (halos of garbage dumped from the huts above), there was no evidence of human casualties.Franz Lidz, New York Times, 19 Mar. 2024
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Just four years later, Howard found himself being traded away in a salary dump.Tim Bontemps, chicagotribune.com, 21 June 2017
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New York City is gradually transforming its largest trash dump, Fresh Kills on Staten Island, into a vast expanse of parkland and restored natural areas.Andres Viglucci, miamiherald, 15 June 2017
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“Dustbin.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dustbin. Accessed 5 Jan. 2025.
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