wastepaper basket
wastebasket AmE , auch: waste-basket AmE

Then his eye fell on the wastepaper basket, and he picked it up.

He reached for the wastepaper basket and heaved into it.

He looked round to see whether it had fallen in the wastepaper basket.

Before she could throw the water into the wastepaper basket, the reports had gone up in smoke.

"But I haven't said a word," came a surprised voice from the direction of the wastepaper basket.

I took a good look at the desk and the wastepaper basket.

He showed me a whole wastepaper basket full of used condoms.

He saw the telephone in the wastepaper basket and put it back onto the hook.

"And the contents of the wastepaper baskets, where are they?"

They were handed me by the various people concerned or collected from the wastepaper basket.