John wrote:
"chris French" wrote in message
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In message , John
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On a recent holiday to Spain I noticed that the end of the street bins on
wheels had been replaced with bright new containers for rubbish. They were
colour coded according to what needed to go into them. Certainly they were
an improvement on the old bins that used to wander around a bit and rarely
had the lids closed.

The replacements are summarised he
http://www.nordengineering.com/prodottiengl.htm

However, I really hope the concept does not attract our councils as:

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6. Would you want one outside your house? Would you want one too far away?


I guess that might depend on where I was living, no I wouldn't want one
outside my house. but we have plenty of space for storing wheelie bins on
the drive.

The row of very small terraced cottages along the road from us have no
rear access, limited internal storage space and just a small area at the
front of the house for storing bins. People living in them might find such
arrnagements more attractive.
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Chris French

What did they do in the olden days of the cylindrical metal or plastic
dustbins? (Pre-Wheelie Bin)

In those days we all had open fires, or fires behind glass doors. Those
with open fires used to burn as much rubbish as possible on it. Hence
the name, ash bin (they also had to put the fire ashes in as well.)
After smokeless zones were introduced, plastic bins came in.

Can't remember what those with open fire did about ashes. As we were
living in a flat, or house with gas fires.

Dave