Generally speaking; no. Have you heard the saying: One man's trash is another man's treasure? Anyway, garbage consists of uneaten food and other foul things, while trash consists of things you no longer need or want, but at the same time could be of use to someone else. If you mix garbage with trash, then consider it to be garbage

And of course another man's trash is this man's garbage. Of course the terms and Hungry Guy's as well are loosely used to mean the same thing. And Guy are you really that hungry? Rooting in the ash bins? Ash Bin! There's another one in Britain they put garbage in the ash bin, Makes one wonder where they put the ashes. But so and anyway, there are localities where you gotta keep your garbage separate from your trash. Indded in nmy town I can hire just about anyone to haul off trash but I gotta use the city ot a licensed company to haul away garbage. In that case there are some generally accepted definitions and sometimes it helps to look up the etymology of a word to see what it really means. these come from http://www.onelook.com/ Trash is just about "any worthless material that is to be disposed of ". The word is of Scandinavian origin meaning "fallen leaves and twigs," the sense of domestic refuse or garbage dates to 1906 American English. As re-cycling becomes more prevalent and more things are re-cycled, more stuff becomes less and less worthless, it aint trash to be disposed of no more but a resource to be harvested. And some folks put their garbage in the compost bin instead of the ash bin. Garbage would be a subset of trash and is basically "food that is discarded", or stuff used in connection and/or comes in contact with it like packaging, paper towels, paper plates and such. It probably came from Old French jarbage "a bundle of sheaves, entrails," "Garbage" in English originally meant the giblets of a fowl, yum yum smashed taters with turkey garbage gravy. As re-cycling becomes more prevalent and more things are re-cycled, more stuff becomes less and less worthless, it aint trash to be disposed of no more but a resource to be harvested. And some folks put their garbage in the compost bin instead of the ash bin. Waste would be stuff that isn't or can't be recycled or composted, since it is defined as "any materials unused and rejected as worthless or unwanted." For example waste could be encountered in industry or construction. A person who makes fluffy scarves knows it takes x weight of feathers to make a scarf ten feet long but all the feathers in a lot are not usable, so the boa constructor orders a few ounces more as waste. Waste comes from Latin vastum meaning...uh..waste. ( What a waste of time looking that one up was.) Meaning "useless expenditure" is recorded from 1297; sense of "refuse matter" is attested from c.1430. Rubbish is defined as "worthless material that is to be disposed of ." I thought that was "trash" hmm. of unknown origin. Apparently somehow related to rubble. That relation is apparent in its use as meaning stuff that has kind of collected over time rather than been produced in the kitchen or in constructing somethin. Like paper and trash and leaves that have blown into a yard or the rubbish up in the attic, most people don't have trash in the attic, except some people do hide their yellow covered paper backs like "His New Sexetary" up there. Junk is "the remains of something that has been destroyed or broken up." It was a nautical term in 1338 and meant "old cable or rope". To me at least, junk means durable , but broken stuff that can be recycled.L ike old cars and pipes and other metal mostly, except for beer cans and other aluminum which I save up and take to the nearby recycling center myself. I often get enough to pay for the gas and some more beer cans which I promptly empty in order to take to the recycling center.We got junk men who drive past early on 'trash' day lookin for junk that has been discarded with the 'garbage.' They haul it off to the recycling center, which used to be called salvage yards, but aint nothin more than junk yards, where it is compressed into cubes and shipped to places where it is melted down and reused. Used to be Japan was the biggest buyer of US junk, but nowadays huge ships carry cubes to China and bring back stuff for the dollar stores. That's why the stuff they sell and the Chinese boats are called... no wait, that's uh entirely different word root. Crap, now things are gonna get complicated, it's over used to the point of almost becoming meaningless. It comes from Latin crappa, crapinum meaning 'chaff", it came up through Middle French crape-"siftings," Middle English crappe -"grain that was trodden underfoot in a barn, chaff" to finally in 1849 -obscene term for feces. It did not come from Thomas Crapper, people were using the word in that last sense long before they were using his "Silent Valveless Water Waste Preventer, " which wasn't his anyway, British Patent # 4,990 was issued to Albert Giblin, an employee of Mr Crapper's, in 1898. It seems the word is being used in a sense closer to its pre-1849 meaning of "things cast off or discarded" or at least useless. In fact in this 'trash' sense of the word it seems to me that crap is not the same as junk, crap can have a a value, it is just that there is too much of it or it is disorganized, or just in the way. Crap can in fact have a use, it's just that the owner of the crap has no need for it. My son has two dozen pair of computer speakers, that's crap, they just take up space, but he got um free and can't bring himself to toss um in the refuse bin. My backyard is full of crap, some of it is junk but it can be fixed,someday, or used to make other stuff, someday. Hey! used that big crawdad trap that was crap, and that bicycle tire that was crap, and that old dryer motor that was crap, and an old metal chair and a bed frame , both definitely and defiantly crap, to make a semi-automatic motorized compost sifter. So there! That stuff out there aint crap, it ain't even junk, it's RAW MATERIALS! Oh sorry, thot I was talkin to notmrsjohn or the city code enforcement there. ( Howdja like the way I cleverly worked in my misspelling of definitely?) So crap is stuff with some value that is just in the wrong place such as the following; A little used word ( it certainly wasn't used here, but I've always liked it) is offal meaning the unusable inside parts of a meat animal, sorta like jarbage, the guts as kids like to say, from off + fall, the notion being that which "falls off" the butcher's block. Or it could be from the Old Dutch afval, which , according to the Babel Fish means "detritus" in modern Dutch. Offal can be awful, but those two words aren't related. Detritus, there's another little used word, it has come to mean the worthless " remains of something that has been destroyed or broken up," usually by a natural process or as a byproduct of some other process. Ah! 'byproduct' that... well not yet, back to detritus, which comes down as a noun from Geological sense of "matter produced by erosion", 1802, which is completely incorrect as it is from the French VERB detritus-"process of erosion," from the Lain VERB detritus " wearing away." In other words the noun detritus is a buncha crap. I oughta send this to the recycle bin but I am gonna submit it anyway. I 'pologise for it but I had to get it out of my brain. My brain is, of course, mostly detritus except for the parts that are a waste of space and the small corner where I keep some crap, I mean junk thoughts that I am , someday, going to recycle into an idea..

It is the same thing just different word.

Trash and garbage are words invented by Americans as alternatives to the British version - rubbish, just as they have changed the pavement into the sidewalk, trousers into pants, lift into elevator, handbag into purse...need I go on?

kinda. you know how there is recycled things, well some things go into garbage. so theres are sections, composted, recycled and garbage but trash is overall so all the things you put in any of these sections is trash, things that you dont need anymore.