Waste collection

thumb|A woman picks up litter, while a man jogs alongside, with a garbage bag, at a plogging event in Kent, England

machine that cleans streets in urban areas

profession

collects and sells unwanted household items

searching refuse bins for edible food &/or useful items

process of collecting waste

searching outdoor waters for ferromagnetic objects using a magnet tied to a rope

craft and profession of collecting waste for reuse or sale

thumb|upright=1.4|"A Dead Horse on a Knacker's Cart", drawing by Thomas Rowlandson (1757–1827). thumb|A group of dead pigs awaiting pickup by a local knackery, dumped at the edge of a farm site in [[Scotland; pig farmers in particular prefer the knackery truck not to come close to where live pigs are kept as this is a way that disease can be spread.]] thumb|Smoke discharging from incinerators at Douglasbrae Knackery, Scotland. The business deals with the disposal of animal carcasses from all over the north-east of Scotland.

thumb|right|The Gleaners by [[Jean-François Millet, 1857]]

waste disposal or recycling facility

thumb|Soil compactor A compactor is a machine or mechanism used to reduce the size of material such as waste material or biomass through compaction. A trash compactor is used in business and public places like hospitals (and in the United States also in homes) to reduce the volume of trash they produce. A baler-wrapper compactor is used for making compact and wrapped bales in order to improve logistics.

building or processing site for the temporary deposition of waste

place for storage and dismantling of used vehicles

Refuse & recycling transport system using capsules traveling through vacuum powered tubes.

The Zabbaleen ( '''', ) is a word which literally means "garbage people" in Egyptian Arabic. The contemporary use of the word in Egyptian Arabic is to mean "garbage collectors". In cultural contexts, the word refers to teenagers and adults who have served as Cairo's informal garbage collectors since approximately the 1940s. The Zabbaleen (singular: ', ) are also known as Zarraba (singular: Zarrab), which means "pig-pen operators." The word ' came from the Egyptian Arabic word '''' (, ) which means "garbage".

household waste collection service

practice of gleaning edible food that would otherwise go to waste, and distributing it to local emergency food programs

thumb|alt=A homemade pooper-scooper|A homemade pooper-scooper in Portland, Oregon, 2012 A pooper-scooper, or poop scoop, is a device used to pick up animal feces from public places and yards, particularly those of dogs. Pooper-scooper devices often have a bag or bag attachment. 'Poop bags' are alternatives to pooper scoopers, and are simply a bag, usually turned inside out, to carry the feces to a proper disposal area. Sometimes, the person performing the cleanup is also known as the pooper-scooper.

TerraCycle is a private U.S.-based recycling business headquartered in Trenton, New Jersey. It primarily runs a volunteer-based recycling platform to collect non-recyclable pre-consumer and post-consumer waste on behalf of corporate donors, municipalities, and individuals to turn it into raw material to be used in new products. TerraCycle also manages Loop, a consumer-products shopping service with reusable packaging.

person who is responsible for the cleaning and maintaining of a sanitation technology

separate collection of reusable plastic, metal, drink cartons etc. in one plastic bag or in a container

environmental action to remove litter from a place

person who dug out and removed human excrement from privies and cesspits