When Is Bins ? - A Light-Hearted Look at our Domestic Refuse Collection System
As one of the more incisive questions of our age, "When is Bins ?" definitely deserves some attention…and hopefully a reliable and effective solution for those afflicted by recent changes (i.e. most of us!). In days of old, life was much simpler when it came to getting our rubbish collected…. The majority of households had just one dustbin. We put it out for the dustmen (as we affectionately referred to them in those balmy 'pre-pc' days) on the same day each week, and with a bit of luck it got emptied sometime on that day. Life is much more complicated nowadays when it comes to dealing with our domestic waste. The advent of recycling and climate change awareness, which admittedly was necessary, given our profligacy with the earth’s non-renewable resources over the last 100 years, came in the late 1990s, and none too soon. But it has led to a plethora of different schemes for collecting, sorting and processing of our domestic waste, with very little standardis...