sanitation workers

Municipal waste handlers

Sanitation workers are employees who collect garbage, recyclables, and other waste materials.

The term encompasses trash collectors, street sweepers, and sewage workers—anyone whose job involves removing or processing waste to maintain public health and cleanliness.

The sanitation workers go on strike every few years.

Opposites
cleanliness/contamination

sanitation workerspolluters

Those who contaminate surroundings

litterers · fly-tippers · dumpers · vandals

social prestige/occupational status

sanitation workersCEOs

Highest corporate officers

executives · surgeons · celebrities · politicians · lawyers

waste management function

sanitation workersmanufacturers

Entities producing goods massively

producers · packagers · distributors · factory workers · assembly line workers

Family

workers, sanitation

Familiarity
Top 100,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G