The phrase "a litter bin" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a container for waste or litter, typically found in public places.
Example: "Please dispose of your trash properly by placing it in a litter bin."
Alternatives: "a trash can" or "a waste bin."
Overshadowed by The Streets' first appearance, The Outer Marker had all the impact of a litter bin beside a Camden Town kebab van.
Waiting for them below on a bench by a litter bin is a trembling red-faced man wrapped in a gray blanket with a sliced loaf ready on his lap.
As the polls closed at 10pm on election night, he was hurrying out of the party's committee rooms in Thornton Heath when he saw "a dishevelled gentleman" going through a litter bin.
He's clambered up on to a litter bin outside Marks & Sparks to get a good shot of the Liberal Democrat challenger, Gordon Birtwhistle, manning his regular advice/complaint/suggestion stand in the town centre.
A FEW hours after Massimo D'Antona, a leading adviser to Italy's labour minister, had been shot dead outside his home in Rome on the morning of May 20th, a tip-off came that a 28-page document had been dropped in a litter bin.
So, on the day of the closing ceremony, we went out to an off-licence with empty sports drinks bottles to fill them up with vodka and Red Bull, but Jason Queally didn't bring a bottle and so went rummaging around in a litter bin in the street.
I ask because the path that should take a cup from the recycling box in your home – or the recycling section of a street litter bin – into a waste cart, along to a recycling plant and eventually to some form of reuse, is tortuous and fraught.
Guernsey Waste has warned that people caught throwing away household waste in a public litter bin could face a bill for the clear-up, or potentially a court appearance with conviction carrying a fine of up to £1,000.
Bizarrely, I noticed that there are hardly any litter bins – and hardly any litter, either.
As well as the general oafishness of British people, these included a lack of law enforcement, a shortage of litter bins, and a failure by many local councils to clean up dropped rubbish despite their legal obligation to do so.
Quite apart from the trickiness of loading the film, budding photographers couldn't be sure whether they had a potential cover of National Geographic or a pile of prints fit for the litter bin until the negatives came back from the lab.
