débris

Noun

debris (uncountable)

1. Rubble, wreckage, scattered remains of something destroyed.
   • His neighbors were still ripping out debris. But Mr. Ryan, a retired bricklayer who built his house by hand 30 years ago only to lose most of it to Hurricane Sandy, was already hard at work rebuilding.2012 December 21, David M. Halbfinger, Charles V. Bagli, Sarah Maslin Nir, “On Ravaged Coastline, It’s Rebuild Deliberately vs. Rebuild Now”, in The New York Times

   Synonyms:

   detritus

2. Litter and discarded refuse.
   • [The researchers] noticed many of their pieces of [plastic marine] debris sported surface pits around two microns across. Such pits are about the size of a bacterial cell. Closer examination showed that some of these pits did, indeed, contain bacteria, […].2013 July 20, “Welcome to the plastisphere”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845, archived from the original on 08 Mar 2023

   Synonyms:

   cultch, crap, dreck, drek, garbage, gash, junk, litter, pelf, piece of crap

3. Large rock fragments left by a melting glacier etc.