The phrase "amount of refuse" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the quantity of waste or garbage produced or managed in a specific context.
Example: "The city has seen a significant increase in the amount of refuse collected during the summer months."
Alternatives: "quantity of waste" or "volume of garbage".
Charging residents according to the amount of refuse they set out for collection is not only fair, but would mean reducing costs for those who produce less refuse.
Farmers on Chat Moss were legally required by their tenancy agreements to accept a specified amount of refuse on their land, and were even obliged to pay for it.
Because a canal barge can hold so much more than a wagon, the waterways expansions increased the quantity of supplies that could reach London (and the amount of refuse and manure that could be carted away).
This symbiotic association produces a large amount of refuse consisting primarily of partly degraded plant material.
It will take several days for trash trucks and bulldozers to haul out vast amounts of refuse and waste.
Mature colonies produce large amounts of refuse material [16], and considerable colony resources are devoted to waste management [15].
They restrict households to a limited amount of garbage, and refuse to pick up more.
The amount of garbage in the refuse of an individual home can be reduced by garbage grinders, or garbage disposals.
A local journalist and her truth-seeking compadres discover the town's bay has been polluted by an unholy amount of poultry refuse from a nearby chicken plant.
At 52 I've got more hair on my head than expected (my dad was bald from his early 20s) and an unseemly amount of it has refused to go grey.
"It's a pity the UK is so backwards when it comes to this," says Abigail. "You follow US policy in so many things - so many dreadful things - so why not this?" While groups such as United Patients Alliance continue to pressure the government, it doesn't bode well that those with the most amount of power are refusing to even think about thinking about drug reform.
