"ton of junk" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is a colloquial expression used to describe a large amount of useless or unwanted things. Example: "I finally cleaned out my garage and got rid of a ton of junk that I never use."
It was a ton of junk with some wonderful stuff mixed in".
In the Runaways we used to eat a ton of junk food.
She'll be walking around with her hair up and a drink sloshing like Lucille Bluth in Gangie, with dead Ben & Jerry's soldiers littering the countertop; then, at the end of the night, she'll clean up everything because she knows she'll be angry enough to break a coffee mug if there's a ton of junk in the way first thing in the morning.
I just redid my upstairs office and found a ton of junk lying around cluttering things up.
The postal service delivers a ton of junk mail every day.
Start by Gradually cutting your calorie intake to 500 calories less than you'd normally eat OR if you eat a ton of junk food and/or fried food, then just gradually cut that out.
The whole place looks like something out of Mad Max – tons of junk and old trucks with no wheels and crazy homemade shacks.
According to the WildWest Institute, an estimated 100 million trees are destroyed each year to produce 4.5 million tons of junk mail, with 44percentt of that thrown away unopened.
Piles of newspapers, books, tin cans and old furniture filled the room.... Up to yesterday the police, together with laborers from the Public Administrator's office, had removed 120 tons of junk from the Collyer home.
After their deaths in 1947 (Langley under a landslide of rubbish; Homer, blind and paralysed, from starvation), their house was broken open: the 130 tons of junk discovered within saw them posthumously ordained as America's most notorious pack-rats.
But given the added cost, in both money and time, of inspecting and somehow purifying mail, the idea of getting rid of tons of junk mail every day is an attractive one that merits serious consideration.
