sanitation worker

noun

1. a person employed to collect, haul away, and dispose of garbage.

Example Sentences

Since 1998, Pawar had been working as a safai karamchari, or sanitation worker, responsible for sweeping garbage off the streets of Mumbai.

From Quartz

Cops, firemen, teachers, nurses, first responders, sanitation workers, folks who we just recently started calling essential workers, but quite frankly, they were always essential.

From Freakonomics

The nephew, Sammy Santana, is now 36 and has grown up to become a New York City sanitation worker.

From The Daily Beast

For a sanitation worker then or now, the contents of a particular bag are seldom of any interest.

From The Daily Beast