Translation for "wastepapers" to spanish

Wastepapers

noun

• papeles usados

Translation examples

papeles usados noun

He was a fat boy with a pole across his shoulders, carrying loads of wastepaper.
Era un muchacho regordete que llevaba un palo sobre los hombros y transportaba cargas de papel usado.

I wouldn’t have seen them at all had I not dropped an earring into the wastepaper basket.
No las hubiese visto si no se me hubiese caído un pendiente dentro del cesto con los papeles usados.

At half-past six he pasted his last strip and rubbed his hands clean with a piece of wastepaper.
A las seis y media pegó la última columna y se limpió las manos con un trozo de papel usado.

The boy said that if the wastepaper was good quality, like old, neatly stacked newspapers, he would pay 50 fen for one kilo—about 6 cents a pound. That seemed to me pretty fair.
El chico dijo que si el papel usado era de buena calidad —como el de los periódicos viejos y bien apilados— pagaba cincuenta fen por kilo, aproximadamente ocho peniques. Me pareció justo.