Yahoo News We can make peace with the wheelie bins. But what then?
Pity the dustmen of Bath. This is no Chaucerian tale; instead, it turns out that the city whose very name derives from its ancient aspiration to cleanliness is particularly sensitive to rubbish. Today, the dustmen are caught in the middle of a battle between councillors determined to use wheelie bins and house-proud residents who consider the bins an eyesore.
Until recently, those living in Bath’s glorious Georgian streets have made do by putting out rubbish bags for collection. Often, there wasn’t much to fill them. Even so, these residents must now find room for giant wheelie bins in their tiny front gardens.
The only answer is architectural camouflage. A wheelie-bin with pediment or pilasters? In brick perhaps? Featuring a pleasing symmetry, and a panelled lid? With a little invention, they’ll soon fit right in. Then the dustmen will have another problem: how to empty bins that have been listed.
