Translations for „wastepaper“ in the English » Slovenian Dictionary

ˈwaste·pa·per N no pl (for recycling)

wastepaper

odpadni papir m

ˈwaste·pa·per bas·ket N, ˈwaste·pa·per bin N

wastepaper basket

koš m za odpadni papir

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

English

The council installed 1 wastepaper basket for every 200m of street.

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An extraordinary visitation in 1910 complained that there were no spittoon, no wastepaper basket and no handkerchief available, and that the benches were old and therefore unsuitable.

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It also has a wastepaper recycling unit that manufactures paper used for making greeting cards and other stationery-related paper products.

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Before sixty copies had been sold the publisher became bankrupt and the stock went for wastepaper.

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The major type of delinquency is misuse of wastepaper baskets.

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When the notes are no longer needed, the board can automatically repel them and drop them into a small wastepaper basket below.

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He went over to the typewriter, took a sheaf of papers and began ripping them up into smaller and smaller pieces, which he let into the wastepaper basket.

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Indeed, upon further investigation, it appears that my wastepaper basket is full... of waste paper.

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Ashcan editions frequently contained unlettered stories, unfinished art or even just whatever wastepaper had been conveniently available at the time.

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Officials at the time believed it was started when a roomer dropped a match into a wastepaper basket.

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