Three months earlier, five boys suffocated while keeping warm in a rubbish bin in the same province.

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Gilmour was accused of throwing a rubbish bin that appeared to hit the Jaguar, but his defence disputed the allegation.

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When they had finished with it, instead of dropping it in a rubbish bin the doctors put it in a freezer, where it hung around, half forgotten, until 1986.

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For example, the KDDI mobile phone strapped to a cleaning worker's waist can tell the difference between actions performed such as scrubbing, sweeping, walking an even emptying a rubbish bin.

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This broad metaphor also lent itself to sub-metaphors, including object-icons such as a rubbish bin (also the work of Mr Mercer when he worked at Apple in the 1980s), folders and files.

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Rubbish that the council can recycle, garden cuttings and cans and plastics will be collected separately, and as for the rest of their rubbish - each home will get a wheelie bin but it won't be very big and it will only be collected once a fortnight.

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Rubbish collectors left 70 bin bags to rot at a block of flats in Essex as "it was too dark for them to go inside".

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During heavy snowfalls last winter bin collections were cancelled, leaving city rubbish uncollected for a month.

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On our small village road there was a pile of over 100 bin bags, every house had piles of rubbish to be collected.

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