collect refuse
Frequency: 6.99.8 per million words
To gather waste as part of a regular service.
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- Refuse is collected on Fridays.
- The city council regularly collects refuse from residential areas.
- Could you please remember to put out the bins so we can collect the refuse?
- Specialized trucks are used to efficiently collect large amounts of refuse.
- Local workers collect the refuse early in the morning to avoid traffic.
- In some rural areas, residents have to take their refuse to a central point for collection.
- We need to improve our system to collect industrial refuse more safely.
- The company was fined for failing to properly collect hazardous refuse.
- They are planning a new initiative to collect and recycle refuse more effectively.
- It's the responsibility of the sanitation department to collect household refuse.