Perfectly good chargers can often be thrown away if someone gets a new type of phone handset.

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If we had not thrown away the Saturn v rocket there could have been permanent lunar bases on the moon.

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Just metres away from where the coffin was discovered was something else which, if dug up in the garden, would probably be thrown away - a squashed, grey pot, hand-moulded, not made on a wheel, and with a crude decoration of lines and punch-marks.

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If Ethyl's case is thrown out, such noise might gradually die away.

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Although strong, "rank" smells are a clear indicator that food - especially meat - should be thrown away, the reality is people won't be able to tell if food is definitely safe to eat from smelling it, according to food expert Stefan Gates.

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