During the 18th and early 19th centuries, people commonly discarded refuse in their yards.
The discarded refuse at Roland Garros provides enough reason to stop by for morning and evening snacks.
The early islands were awash with pirates, buccaneers, reprobates, criminals and the dissolute, depraved, discarded refuse of the motherland.
Like many restaurants in Vietnam, the facility was casual in the extreme: diners and servers alike swept discarded refuse onto the floor, and the tiles had acquired a grimy sheen that squeaked beneath your feet.
The platform seemed relatively clean on Monday at one of the no-bin stops, at the Eighth Street and Broadway station in Greenwich Village, although it was clear that customers seeking a way to discard their refuse had improvised: an empty Starbucks cup sat perched on a support beam, by a folded-up paper pizza plate.
Discarding personal refuse in public is not a harmless act; it erodes the health of a city as surely as higher-level crime does, if with less immediate danger.
Prior to Muhammad in Arabia, it is common knowledge that females were considered property, and that female infants were often discarded like refuse when born.
The nondealer may take the top card from the discard pile or refuse it; if the nondealer refuses, the dealer has the same option.
And as in "The Price," in which two brothers enact a debate over whether discarding or refusing to forget the unhappy past is the more responsible path to the future, at the play's center is a fierce moral argument, fully articulated on both sides.
The environmental agency is considering changing the definition in a way that would allow coal companies to discard the mountaintop refuse into the water, defining it as allowable "fill".
And so – alongside John Lennon's guitar, Clarence Clemons's saxophone, Elvis's custom motorcycle and Joey Ramone's leather jacket – visitors to the museum will be able to see a painted oil drum, one of 15,000 or so that are placed round the site to collect the refuse discarded by the revellers – of whom there will be 177,000 this year.
