Someone nicked mine years ago. So now I have to sneak out in the early hours and put my rubbish in a randomly selected neighbour's.
If I need to distinguish one of these from a large metal dumpster that would be in front of a business, it's a trash can, and if I need to distinguish it from a small trash can that would be in a house it's a dumpster.
We just call them cans. I’ve never had to call them wheelie because everyone’s cans are wheelie like this.
There's a lad comes round our estate who cleans t'bin for a tenner. Never done it me'sen but I can see the appeal. Next door reckons he could eat his Sunday dinner off 'is
I'm ready to believe all kinds of slander about americans, but surely you aren't trying to tell me that they haven't invented the wheel yet.
I think it's a play on the fact that most of the anglosphere calls them 'wheelie bins' while we Americans call them 'Garbo Crates'
Never heard of those. I guess 'garbage' must be long for 'garbo'
100%. i have multiple heavy duty bins, each colored according to function (trash, recycle, yard) and they are all provided for no fee by the city. if one gets creamed by the truck, goes missing, or otherwise fails, i call a number and a replacement is dropped off by a city worker within a day.
it's basically Moscow in 1950s here. :khrushchev-fist:
i live in a place libs love to make a punchline out of as backward, conservative, and inbred (even though statistically, inbreeding is more of a past time of urban elites and aristocratic families trying to narrow the band of wealth inheritance).
we have our problems, but handling our trash is not one of them. meanwhile, NYC sends >40, 2-ton trucks everyday loaded with trash to giant holes in the ground as far away as Virginia to handle the amount of refuse they discard. truly, the nexus of sophistication.
oooh loveley bin mate. wouldn't risk showing mine online though, if anyone touched it I'd flay em
"Wheelie bin" is an absolutely adorable name for a trashcan. I love it.
Whenever I hear "wheelie bin" I think of that one video of London cops using a wheelie bin to protect themselves from a guy with a machete.
They have these in America.
BUT, in most of the country the private company that collects your refuse only takes trash, and recycling is something you either pretend doesn't exist, or you take all your recycling to the nearest recycling center when your porch fills up.
It really grinds my gears. Recycling isn't going to solve climate change, but cardboard and aluminum or steel cans are worth money when recycled and aren't that hard to sort mechanically.
what annoys me about bins in the UK is the inconsistency in colour coding.
I grew up with two bins - green for recycling, black for landfill, but I moved to a place where they had blue for cardboard, brown for plastic and glass, black for landfill. Utterly unintuitive.
