0 an open container that stands on the floor inside buildings and is used for putting rubbishin, especially paper --
1 a container to hold paper or other small things you want to get rid of --
As with all bagless vacuums, the filter needs to be cleaned after each use but placed into a wastebasket if it is too dirty to clean.
The genus is at least in part a wastebasket taxon, and revision will likely result in the renaming of a number of species to different genera.
Sometimes, during taxonomic revisions, the wastebasket taxa can be salvaged after doing thorough research on its members, and then imposing tighter restrictions on what continues to be included.
While purpose-made collars can be purchased from veterinarians or pet stores, they can also be made from plastic and cardboard or by using plastic flowerpots, wastebaskets, buckets or lampshades.
This subfamily has historically served as much of a wastebasket for trichomycterids that lack the specializations of the other subfamilies.
The genus once served as a wastebasket taxon for many agaric mushrooms with a white spore print, gills attached to the stem, and an annulus.
The genus thus functioned as a typical wastebasket taxon.
This is a wastebasket article combining rights that were too important to remain unmentioned, but too unimportant to warrant a separate article status.