trash can 3D model

The term garbage can is also used for a model of decision making, the Garbage Can Model of decision making. It is concerned with cases of decision making in great aggregate uncertainty which can cause decisions to arise that from a distant point of view might seem irrational.

A trash can metaphor is often used in computer operating system desktop environments as a place files can be moved for deletion.

In a workplace setting, a bin may be euphemistically called the circular file, the round file or the janitor's file. Whereas useful documents are filed in a filing cabinet, which is rectangular, junk mail and other worthless items are filed in the bin, which is often round.