a passage, esp common in high-rise apartment buildings, through which refuse is carried by means of gravity to a large waste receptacle at the bottom end
Garbage chutes are located to the right of the service elevator on each floor.
Examples of 'garbage chute' in a sentence
garbage chute
Yet it must be said that throughout the proceedings his mouth gave a passable impersonation of a garbage chute.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
The sense that a grand slam may be one last, grand blowout before the country throws itself down the economic garbage chute.