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 The number of wheelie bins cluttering our streets is indeed, as the Daily Mail points out, completely ridiculous. This is not such a problem for those of us who have gardens but for those who don't our pavements are not only becoming inaccessible but also unsightly. For many years the hardy inhabitants of Britain managed with one bin or a couple of biodegradable bin bags. Now we are all deemed to need at least three and some of us are deemed to be in need of four or five in a variety of rather garish colours.
Mrs Harrison who is four foot ' eleven inches high, ninety one years old and living with her cat, apparently requires as much weekly bin space as the family of two adults and four children who live further down the road.
A simple and eco-friendly solution for those of us who realise that we don't require such a plethora of bins is to turn them into handy plant pots. A wheelie bin with the lid removed and a few holes drilled into the bottom for drainage makes an excellent container for ivy and other trailing plants and flowers.
There is hardly any point providing bins for garden waste for those of us who don't have any garden waste nor is there any point in providing huge paper waste bins for those of us who don't have what amounts to the pulp of at least two medium sized trees delivered to us in the form of bank statements or by newspaper boys on a a weekly basis.
By turning the 'garden waste bins' and the 'paper waste bin' into flower pots, with a little imagination, we could reclaim our gardens and for those of us who don't have gardens transform many of our drab looking pavements and streets into areas of outstanding, natural, beauty. In doing so, we would also be making a valid contribution to the reduction of our carbon footprints by growing plants flowers and shrubs, which would, in turn encourage birds, insects and wildlife to return to our shores.
The advantages of this type of pot are, firstly they are freely provided by the council, and secondly they can be moved around (on the wheels provided) so that the best advantage can be made of light and growing conditions and aesthetic and artistic arrangement. Thirdly, for those of us who didn't have a garden, we now have one!
 This only leaves us with the problem of how to turn our invariably bright purple 'bin bins' (for want of a better word), into something aesthetically pleasing to the eye. However I have come up with a rather ingenious solution and would welcome the help of Peter Jones, Theo Paphitis and the Dragons Den Team in bringing it into fruition. (Please contact Lois Lane C/O the Angry Mob) A simple, removable, plastic mould, which fits to the lid of the bin containing trailing plastic plants and flowers, could be implemented. This would give your bin the appearance of a rather lovely trailing shrub whilst enabling you to open it and close it again quite easily. It would also blend in rather well with your existing real trailing plant pots and could be unclipped on collection days!
As my final contribution to the Daily Mail's Bin Revolt please help by joining my campaign to 'Stop the Daily Mail Printing 'Femail' on the grounds that it is:
a) Probably one of the main reasons we need a third 'waste paper bin'
b) Helping to decimate the rain-forest for no worthwhile reason and increasing our carbon footprint.
c) 'A collection of ill-thought out articles which induce panic and depression in readers, in which women of every size and age are bullied out of their lifestyles or into buying their way out of their dreadful misery with an expensive new frock or handbag, botox or a boob job and then attacked the following day if they have been foolish enough to follow this advice'
Simply write or email the editor of the Daily Mail saying 'I wish to contribute to your bin revolt by asking you to stop printing Femail.' If you want, you could go one further and ask them to stop going to press at all, but then Rome wasn't built in a day! |
