Notable Waste Collectors
Former waste collectors
- Andy Abraham - X-Factor contestant
- Larry Bird - hall of fame basketball player - Briefly after dropping out of Indiana University and before enrolling at Indiana State University.
- Michael Carroll - UK National Lottery winner (got his job back in 2010 after he went bankrupt.)
- Richard Leiterman - Cinematographer
- Steve Hutchins - Politician
- Nathan Rees - Politician, former Premier of New South Wales
- Neville Southall - International footballer
- Georges St-Pierre - Mixed martial artist and UFC Welterweight Champion, (worked as a garbage man for 6 months)
- Benjamin Pell - a quasi-private investigator known in the British press as "Benji The Binman".
- Martin Phillips - Welsh darts player who has made multiple appearances in the BDO World Professional Darts Championship
- Peter Steele - late vocalist/bassist of Type O Negative drove garbage trucks and other vehicles for the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation.
- Todd Gracia - Endodontist New Zealand
- Roy Brooks - Musician- guitar
Fictional waste collectors
- Alfred P. Doolittle (Stanley Holloway), a common dustman, My Fair Lady from the stage play, Broadway, 1956; London, 1958; Warner Bros. motion picture, 1964.
- Barney Gorman (Tony Danza) from the 1998 television film The Garbage Picking Field Goal Kicking Philadelphia Phenomenon
- Bob and Doug McKenzie, on their 2009 animated series
- Carl (Charlie Sheen) and James (Emilio Estevez) from the 1990 film Men at Work
- Garbageman - From Dilbert
- Howard Moon of The Mighty Boosh has worked twice as a Bin man, once prior to the show and lastly in The Strange Tale of the Crack Fox.
- Louie Wilson (Scatman Crothers) of Chico and the Man
- Mike Droese - Professional wrestler
- Muckman - From Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
- Nicodemus (Noddy) Boffin, aka the Golden Dustman, in Charles Dickens' Our Mutual Friend, probably based on Henry Dodd, a ploughboy who made his fortune removing London's rubbish.
- Roger Wilco - From the Space Quest computer game series by Sierra Entertainment
- Sid Phillips, main antagonist in the animated film Toy Story (1995) who grows up to be a garbageman as seen in Toy Story 3 (2010)
- The films Blood Feast, Scanners III: The Takeover and Child's Play 3 all feature minor characters being murdered with refuse trucks.
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