They were garbage, quite literally — discarded appliances left at the curb for pickup by the Sanitation Department.
The interior was overflowing with discarded appliances, toilets and sinks, old mattresses and sofas, broken bricks and other garbage.
The refrigerators are the visible side effect of a new European law that requires the discarded appliances to be taken to special plants where environmentally harmful, ozone-depleting chlorofluorocarbons are extracted from their insulation foam.
Improved eco-design, such as design for easier disassembly, has been promoted, and the higher quality of discarded appliances has enhanced the reuse market.
There was a sense of disillusionment with regard to refuse, with remarks about burned out cars, empty bottles and cans (from people drinking outside) and discarded appliances such as fridges.
Mr. LeMieux goes on to describe scavenging through garbage bins in search of discarded clothes, appliances, and partially smoked cigarettes.
But a proposal being circulated excludes trash, used tires, junked cars and discarded kitchen appliances as fill in waterways unless they are part of a structure, like artificial reefs or berms.
The big seasonal lake at Paralimni, for example, near where I was patrolling with the CABS people, is a noisy dust bowl commandeered for an illegal shooting range and an illegal motocross course, carpeted with shotgun shells, and extensively littered with construction debris, discarded large appliances, and household trash.
Garbage contains moist and decomposable (biodegradable) food wastes (e.g., meat and vegetable scraps); rubbish comprises mostly dry materials such as paper, glass, textiles, and plastic objects; and trash includes bulky waste materials and objects that are not collected routinely for disposal (e.g., discarded mattresses, appliances, pieces of furniture).
