Translations for „wastepaper“ in the English » Polish Dictionary

wastepaper N no pl

wastepaper

makulatura f

wastepaper basket N

wastepaper basket

kosz m na papiery

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

English

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

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

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Later, he jokingly likens it to the contents of his wastepaper basket.

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The company has developed processes to recycle many types of wastepaper materials into clean, usable pulp.

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Perhaps it is time to pull that report out of the wastepaper basket?

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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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I came up with a concept for a flat-pack wastepaper recycling basket, which used the joins between the polypropylene sheets as a design feature.

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On the committee's recommendation, more than 300 tons of records were sold as wastepaper.

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When they arrive at the apartment, they are told that the contents of a wastepaper basket was on fire, and the fire was extinguished prior to their arrival.

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Local vandals have therefore taken to planting flowers in the wastepaper baskets.

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