> British people call the main bag you put rubbish into in the kitchen?

For me, once it's in use, it'd just be "the bin" but I guess the specific name for the bag itself would be "bin bag" or "bin liner".

> And what is the equivalent of a garbage truck? A rubbish lorry?

I've seen both but people would also just refer to "the bin men" (as in "the bin men come on Thursday")

Bin wagon.

Bin bag, bin lorry. I grew up saying dustbin but most people just call them bins these days.

I believe “dustbin” is from the Victorian era where what little rubbish people had was burnt in the fireplace. The “dustbin man” would come by and take away your fireplace ashes.

We had coal fires, and no central heating when I was a young child.

So we had two (steel) dustbins, and the dust-men would empty them.

I can't remember if the bin wagon had a different name, I shall have to ask my parents.

(UK) My local council say ‘rubbish bins’ on their website. And talk about rubbish collection. I say dustbin sometimes at home to distinguish the bin outside from the one in the kitchen. ‘Wheelie bins’ is also totally understood

Being British English, I'm sure are are bitterly fought-over regional variations, but I would say 'bin bag' and 'bin lorry'. And 'roll' for a round breaded morsel.

your second example i've struggled with myself (and came up with the same clumsy rubbish lorry back-derivation). but i think the first is "binliner"?

british exile for 24 years

Sweet baby Jesus, it's Danny O'Brien. I actually quoted NTK in a court hearing some time ago; that was confusing. I was also filming Chips With Everything at the time you were doing 404 with Dave :)

Binliner definitely seems to tweak some deep neurons.

Gosh! I would love to hear more about that court hearing! Good to hear from you again