According to the Trash Disposal Timeline it was in, or around, AD 200 that the Romans set up the first refuse collection service – two men would walk along the street collecting rubbish and throwing it in a wagon.
That has culminated in the current age of over packaging where black bags containing everything from the remains of the Sunday lunch to polystyrene and crisp wrappers and grease from the chip pan are mixed together, and put out under cover of darkness in a black bag for collection some time the next day.
We mark the passing of an age with this picture of black bags on West St Helen Street … This will be the final time they are collected in this way.
Wheelie bins are the future.
Black bags are unsightly, no denying that, but they were, usually, put out the night before collection. Wheelie bins are there 24/7 spoiling the environment. If this is the future is it progress?
and at least you don’t have to have 37 different black bags in total for each different type/colour/flavour/sound it makes when scrunched up/ of rubbish
This lady might have the right idea:-
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-11393205
Is there a home we can send these faithful border bin liners to?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Bag
At least the bags will be a bit brighter coloured for people who cannot use the wheelie bins. Pink for refuse and Green for recycling. (I suspect very thin bags), I shall miss the heavy duty sacks I used to get from Abingdon Market, £1 for five…..will put them in my galvanised bin for garden refuse. for transfer to composter…