garbage collector vs garbage man

garbage collector

noun
  • A worker who removes refuse. 

  • An algorithm, procedure or thread dedicated to garbage collection: reclaiming resources which are no longer in use. 

garbage man

noun
  • Someone, usually male, whose job it is to collect refuse from people's homes and take it to be processed. 

How often have the words garbage collector and garbage man occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )