The phrase "as a dustbin" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used metaphorically to describe something that is being treated as a receptacle for unwanted items or ideas.
Example: "He treated her opinions as a dustbin, discarding them without a second thought."
Alternatives: "like a trash can" or "as a garbage bin".
Man has used the oceans as a dustbin for far too long.The bin would be even fuller and fouler had the London dumping convention not been signed in 1972, but the sea is still hideously polluted.
In particular, it will be difficult to explain to future generations how and why humanity decided to use the planet's oceans as a dustbin for plastic, a material known for its durability.
Modernism is also treated as a dustbin rich with ideas at the Modern Institute, a Glasgow gallery where blurry, atmospheric paper in a color-separation palette by Simon Starling covers the walls.
One French lawmaker described it as a "dustbin ship".
-ENGLISH PROVERB Sleep is when the unsorted stuff comes flying out as from a dustbin upset in a high wind.
The film stars Dakota Blue Richards as April, a troubled teenager who was abandoned in a dustbin as an infant, and Juliet Stevenson as Marion Bean, April's adoptive mother.
"Bang, bang!" shouted one boy aiming at another across the street, before ducking behind a dustbin as his friend pretended to return fire.
Pat remembers April and gives her a newspaper cutting telling the story of her discovery as a baby in a dustbin behind a pizza parlour.
Whether you envision the category of "cult" as a filthy dustbin for others to rummage through, or as a safe haven for rare treasures, you won't get away with putting this book in that, or any other ghetto.
At a time when Keith Richards is a bestselling author off the back of his national treasure status as a chemical dustbin, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has taken steps to decriminalise marijuana possession in California and Prince Harry is found inhaling "hippy crack", it's difficult to see how drugs could be more mainstream.
Even caught in the act of painting, swerving a brushload of black around a dustbin lid used as a template, Jacobi is believable.
