The word "dumpster", first used commercially in 1936,
[2]
came from the Dempster-Dumpster system of mechanically loading the
contents of standardized containers onto garbage trucks, which was
patented by
Dempster Brothers in 1935.
[3][4] The containers were called
Dumpsters, a
portmanteau of the company's name with the word
dump. The
Dempster Dumpmaster, which became the first successful front-loading garbage truck that used this system, to popularized the word.
The word
dumpster has had at least three trademarks associated with it by Dempster Brothers,
[5][6][7] but today it is often used as a
genericized trademark.
In
British and
Australian English, the terms
wheelie bin and
skip are more commonly used (although they are not perfect
synonyms). In some other countries
[which?] the more descriptive term
frontloader container is often used, either in one or two words.
