Our local Council brought round two years ago, and issued every household with a massive green wheelie bin/garbage container for outside. The green ones are for bottles, plastic etc. A new large compost bin for anyone who wanted one and compost containers for the house. However they do not get used for what they were supposed for! A green wheelie bin (it has wheels and handles, a lid and is about 5 feet tall), was spotted in Egypt by Google Earth being pulled around a market!
As they were brand new and clean a lot of people use them to go on the ferry or the Eurostar to France as it is only 22 miles across or under the English Channel, stock them with cheap alcohol, cigarettes, chocolates and other tax free things and bring them back to the UK.
The compost bins which are metal have in some cases been converted to allow the burning of rubbish and the household compost containers are used for every conceivable use in the kitchen apart from putting compost in.
Regards from a Cool England.
Neil.
