| Subject | English | French |
| environ. | charge on garbage collection | redevance sur la collecte des déchets |
| comp. | garbage collection | collection d'ordures |
| comp., MS | garbage collection | nettoyage de la mémoire, garbage collection (A process for automatic recovery of heap memory. Blocks of memory that had been allocated but are no longer in use are freed, and blocks of memory still in use may be moved to consolidate the free memory into larger blocks) |
| amer. | garbage collection | ramassage des ordures |
| IT, el. | garbage collection | regroupement des positions inutilisées |
| IT, el. | garbage collection | récupération des positions inutilisées |
| IT, el. | garbage collection | regroupement des vides |
| comp. | garbage collection | collection de maculature |
| comp., MS | garbage collection interval | intervalle de Garbage Collection (A measurement of time indicating how often a domain controller examines its database for expired tombstones that can be collected) |
| comp., MS | garbage collection interval | intervalle de nettoyage de la mémoire (A measurement of time indicating how often a domain controller examines its database for expired tombstones that can be collected) |
| corp.gov. | garbage collection tax | redevance pour l'enlèvement des ordures |
| transp., el. | garbage collection truck | camion de la voirie |
| environ., industr. | garbage, trash, rubbish and waste collection services | services de collecte des ordures, détritus, rebuts et déchets |