Refuse

Refuse

1. Items or material discarded or rejected as useless or worthless; trash or rubbish. One man's treasure is another's refuse.
2. To indicate unwillingness to do, accept, give, or allow. He refused treatment at the hospital.
3. To indicate unwillingness to do something. She refused to leave the building.

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Shown is sanitation workers collecting refuse (trash)