Throw the rubbish

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I'm writing a correct sentences? Please correct me, thanks.

"After the dinner last night, I washed the disk and kept the food into the fridge. I was also bringing a rubbish bag to threw it into the collect point."
 
"After dinner last night, I washed the dishes and put the leftovers in the fridge. I was also bringing a rubbish bag to threw it into the collect point."

I don't understand that last part.
:-?
 
I think he means a refuse chute where people throw their rubbish in an apartment.
 
Perhaps:

I also put the trash in the refuse chute.

(Thanks, Ted! :up:)
 
Hm. I wonder if rubbish chute would work as well as refuse chute.
 
[STRIKE]I'm writing[/STRIKE] Have I written [STRIKE]a correct[/STRIKE] the following sentences correctly? If not, please correct [STRIKE]me[/STRIKE] them. Thanks.

Note my corrections to the opening of your post.
 
You wrote "I was also bringing a rubbish bag to threw it into the collect point."

Instead, you should write "I also brought..."

The problem is, I don't understand what "...
a rubbish bag to threw it into the collect point" means. For starters, what does "it" refer to?
 
Rubbish would work in BrE.

I originally wrote rubbish chute, then I realized Ted had suggested refuse chute. Then after I changed it it occurred to me that either would do just as well as the other. (Life can be so complicated. ;-) )
 
AE speakers may also use trash/garbage chute, too.
 
Perhaps you could tell us what you mean by this, Polyester.



It means all the family threw the rubbish into one place. That place was being stored all the rubbish.

I don't know the other words to describe rubbish.
 
What sort of place?

Was it a small container used by the family, a larger container used by a number of families, a tip in their back garden, or something else?

If you want us to help you with "I was also bringing a rubbish bag to threw it into the collect point" then you need to help us by giving us as clear an idea as you can of what you mean by 'collect point'.



You are a professional teacher. Why am I saying that? Because you tried to dig my questions deeply. You are also helping me to look for the errors. First, the rubbish bin was a small container that was 240L. Which I provided the link below.
https://eventrentals.com.au/catalog...e/waste-rubbish/rubbish-bin-240l-wheelie-bin/
Second, it's a public rubbish bin, all the family living there that can use it. Third, "collect point" in my dictionary, it means collect all the family's rubbish onto this point/place. When all the rubbish placed here. The company who takes a responsibility to send the worker here. They will put all the rubbish from the bin into the rubbish cars. And the rubbish car will deliver all the rubbish to landfill.
 
I'm not sure if they use that word (dumpster) in British English, but I would say:

I took the trash out to the dumpster.

(An extended discussion of trash pickup and disposal is not necessary.)
 
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I believe that dumpsters are somewhat larger than the 24o-litre wheelie bin Polyester was speaking of.

Yes. A Dumpster (or "dumpster" if you're using the term generically) holds at least fifteen times what the trash can in the link holds.
 
Yes. A Dumpster (or "dumpster" if you're using the term generically) holds at least fifteen times what the trash can in the link holds.

We might call that a skip in BrE.
 
Typically, a dumpster has a lid and a skip hasn't.

9k=
 
You live and learn- about lids in my case. :)
 
I have learned it a lot. All the teachers or native-speakers here are very helpful.
 
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