Comment 21 for bug 406626

In the UK, "rubbish" is the equivalent of the U.S. sounding "trash", they are even used in the same contexts. Comparing "rubbish" to "trash" would be a fair comparison, as it's the same thing. As would be comparing "rubbish bin" or "dustbin" to "trash can".

Comparing "trash" to "rubbish bin" is comparing two different things (the items vs the container they go in).

That said both "rubbish" and "trash" imply a certain finality about the action, you don't go digging in the rubbish to get something back, but a "bin" is a pretty generic term for a container (e.g. bargain bin, loony bin), I'd argue that "Bin" would be far more fitting than "Trash" or "Rubbish", like Popey said, the rubbish is what goes in the bin.