waste-paper basket

With frightening suddenness he now began ripping the pages out of the book in handfuls and throwing them in the waste-paper basket.

The past would not exist for either of us, we were starting afresh, he and I. The past had blown away like the ashes in the waste-paper basket.

Germany, he warns, cannot go on indefinitely being treated "as a waste-paper basket with a limitless capacity for the unwanted waste of the world."

‘As for this’ - she scrunched it up and threw it in the waste-paper basket - ‘it’s beyond us, Ted.’

He fancied that she would be moved by his sensitiveness to her judgment; but, without a tremor, she tore the pages out of her shorthand book and threw them into the waste-paper basket.