Various states on the state diagram of living in an apartment:

* There is too much rubbish. This is going to take me months to take out without completely monopolizing the bins.
* Okay I finally got my act together enough to take out some rubbish, just this week’s priority rubbish…oh the bins are full.
* Oh the bins are mysteriously empty. Did they collect a day early? How much can I put in without being rude?
* I just needed 3 things shipped to me. Why is my apartment full of cardboard again?

“Rachel you’re from the US why do you say ‘rubbish’”

Because there’s no one word in American English that conveys garbage/trash + recycling + compost other than perhaps “waste” and that just sounds wrong.

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