The phrase "handling garbage" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to refer to the activity of managing garbage, waste, or rubbish. For example: "The city council is investing in new technologies for better garbage handling."
But that European-style vision of handling garbage stands in sharp relief to the needs of the 1,500 trash pickers, or pepenadores, who rely on the refuse at Bordo Poniente every day for their livelihood.
A few examples: honey boat: a garbage scow or barge (1941); g-man: garbage man, soldier handling garbage duties, usually associated with the military (1941); airmail: trash thrown from high windows (1952).
The contracts would be part of an interim solution for handling garbage that cannot be dumped at the Staten Island landfill, and thus would last only three to five years.
When it comes to strategies for handling garbage, a lot has changed just in the last five years.
Because handling garbage is a significant health risk, ACORN also organizes health programs and regular check-ups.
It spends heavily on expensive infrastructure that locks in antiquated methods of handling garbage for a very long time, and is riddled with concessions to forces that have nothing to do with the environment and much to do with greed.
Wohlers was bruised for three runs and Jay Witasick handled garbage time by allowing Jay Buhner's long homer into the black seats in center field.
After Hurricane Katrina, Heebe and his company, River Birch Landfill, began to win numerous contracts to handle garbage — suddenly a very lucrative enterprise.
Firms hired to handle garbage from apartment buildings have been known to inadequately sort kitchen waste, and garbage truck inspectors aren't always diligent about checking to make sure the food scraps are mixed with other types of trash.
Rats are supreme opportunists, and with every slight change in the way humans handle garbage, there is a change in the number of rats to handle it for us.
"Rat Fears" (editorial, July 16) cites "every slight change in the way humans handle garbage," including expanded street collection and penetrable plastic bags instead of building-based incineration and metal cans, as contributing to New York City's expanding rat problem.
