Abstract: A storage container (108) for temporarily storing deposited waste (W) in a vacuum operated waste collection and management system has at least one waste deposit inlet (110A-C), a waste outlet section (120) with a waste discharge opening for the discharge of waste therefrom and a spiral conveyor (111) extended in a first direction through the container, towards the outlet section for assisting discharge of waste from the container via subatmospheric pressure applied through the outlet section. In such a container the spiral conveyor with a screw flight (111A) thereof extends through the waste outlet section and the outlet section includes a waste discharge opening being directed at a considerable angle to a centre axis of the spiral conveyor. Such a storage container may be employed in both vacuum operated waste collection systems of a stationary type and to such systems of a mobile type.