Dustbin art!

Aren't these wheelie bins wonderful.
Before their introduction, people had to keep their rubbish in their own properties, only to be put out on collection day, pavements and back alleys were clear.
Now we are faced with countless green (and black) bins left out all week, causing obstruction and damage, (they also provide a handy leg-up for those who wish to gain access to places they should not be), and enabling people to keep their rubbish out in public.
There are some places where there is no other option but to keep these bins on public property , but there are a whole lot more where the bins are left out because of ignorance and idleness.

It is called 'progress'; a leap forward for mankind, a step away from the previous idiocy of the giant plastic bag ... the 'let's feed the seagulls and rats campaign'. Not forgetting the backbreaker ... the re-cycle box. I agree with everything you say on wheelie bins.

Incidentally, there are think tanks afoot that more wheelie bins are to be distributed, so more separation of waste products can be collected separately; there are also suggestions of penalties divested by the rubbish police. I wonder just what actually happens to waste? Does it get split and re-cycled, or is it spread into out great pits of decay? Many places in the world use double burner heating systems. Heating for communities. The fumes and gases are re-burned, so causing no poisons in the air, and no CO2. The minimal wastes from the boilers are carted away as solids. Does our 're-cycle' end up in vast cargo vessels and taken to India or China and simply dumped there (as has been witnessed and recorded)? Is Cornwall to get an Incinerator? What of its potential energy generation?

I quite like the system operated in Spain where there are communal recycling tanks buried in the ground. It helps if you have buildings surrounding a small aquare, I suppose but it is a jolly-sight less ugly than thousands of plastic wheelie bins. I also ask myself how it is that the Spanish have refuse collection overnight every day and we'll be lucky before long to have more than one every two weeks. It wouldn't be so bad if the refuse collectors put the bins back in place after emptying. If you're out with no-one at home all day, it's galling to find the bin and box left in the road or without a lid on when you get home, or worse still, stolen by low types or victim to schoolchild pranksters. Here is an example of the under-ground-level recycle storage bins in Galicia, N.W. Spain:
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Neat idea for towns. A considerable degree of planning design and work involved to make it accessible and to make it all work. As I understand it, Britain is motivated by Governmental accountability in providing the service at a low cost, it is contracted out to a tendering system. Presumably, as usual in the UK, lowest gets the contract, corners cut, so called efficiency. Then there is the accountability towards Ratepayers, with claims of 'Efficiency Savings', no mention of the waste and personnel involved in bureaucracy. Best place to discover the meaning of 'service' is to check in the 'Archaic Words Dictionary'.

This confirms my opinion that most modern art is rubbish