Trash vs. Garbage
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Trash vs. Garbage - is there a difference? Well, my grandmother taught me that trash means plastic, leaves, metal, tires, wood, etc, and garbage means food waste - I guess what we might now call compost. This linguistic distinction wasn't something I'd ever learned in school - I mean, to me, this is a trash can and this is a garbage can. But the Oxford English Dictionary records "trash" as originally meaning broken or torn pieces of wood, twigs, splinters, cuttings from a hedge, straw, etc. while "garbage" originally meant giblets of a fowl or entrails and waste parts of an animal. In fact, the earliest record of the word "garbage" in English is in a fifteenth-century cookbook recipe for giblets: "Take fayre garbagys of ...
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Trash vs. Garbage - is there a difference? Well, my grandmother taught me that trash means plastic, leaves, metal, tires, wood, etc, and garbage means food waste - I guess what we might now call compost. This linguistic distinction wasn't something I'd ever learned in school - I mean, to me, this is a trash can and this is a garbage can. But the Oxford English Dictionary records "trash" as originally meaning broken or torn pieces of wood, twigs, splinters, cuttings from a hedge, straw, etc. while "garbage" originally meant giblets of a fowl or entrails and waste parts of an animal. In fact, the earliest record of the word "garbage" in English is in a fifteenth-century cookbook recipe for giblets: "Take fayre garbagys of ...
