"refuse collectors" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used to refer to people whose job is to collect and dispose of garbage or waste. Example: The refuse collectors arrived early in the morning to pick up the trash bins from the neighborhood.
Had to hear refuse collectors every morning.
Refuse collectors remove tents and sleeping bags.
From teachers to refuse collectors, care workers to civil servants - we want to hear why you are taking action.
And Mary-Ann's descendants, still in the east end of London, are window cleaners, van drivers and refuse collectors.
Care workers, refuse collectors, bus drivers and cleaners are doing the humble, under-appreciated jobs that are fundamental to collective wellbeing.
The report also found that "familiar strangers" such as postal workers and refuse collectors appear to be under-utilised community resources.
Throw driverless technology into the mix, and it's easy to see how refuse collectors might follow lamp lighters into the obscure past of urban life.
Represented by Unite and Unison, the staff comprise care workers, street cleaners, refuse collectors, social workers, parking enforcement officers and building trades workers.
Present indictions were that London refuse collectors would stay out, while in other places collections would be stopped by strikes involving small numbers of incinerator workers.
Their cheerleaders in Rupert Murdoch's Sun insist the walkouts – by care workers, refuse collectors, firefighters, teachers and nurses – to defend their "golden pensions" are "reckless" and "selfish".
Sir Paul is general secretary of the GMB, the third biggest union, but he is standing down, to be replaced by Tim Roache, who in 2009 organised a 12-week strike by Leeds refuse collectors over pay.
