Monster painted on a bin in Brunswick Street, North Fitzroy, Melbourne, Victoria. Put in bin

Monster painted on a bin in Brunswick Street, North Fitzroy, Melbourne, Victoria in November 2016. Put in bin

Einstein encouraging people to put rubbish in a bin in Fitzroy, Melbourne. Put in Bin

Einstein encouraging people to put rubbish in a bin  in Fitzroy, Melbourne in November 2016. Put in Bin

A full dustbin at Warner Beach, Amanzimtoti, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa

A full dustbin at Warner Beach, Amanzimtoti, KwaZulu Natal, South Africa in February 2015

A cleaner's cart in Hadyai, Thailand

A cleaner's cart in Hadyai, Thailand in February 2012

Mobile wheelie bin

A worker wheeling a very large bin in Hanoi, Vietnam in January 2012

Garbage recycling in Hong Kong

A garbage recycling station in Kowloon, Hong Kong in September 2012

Overflowing charity bins

Charity bins overflowing at Dickson in Canberra in December 2012

Bangkok rubbish

Overloaded rubbish bin at Pratunam, Bangkok, Thailand in June 2011

Overloaded garbage skip

Overloaded garbage skip in Belconnen, Canberra in July 2010

Unorganic

A bin unorganic only n the Sacred Monkey Forest of Padangtegal in Ubud, Bali, Indonesia in June 2011.

Village bin

This is a dustbin by the side of the road, and made of rubber. Photographed in a Thai Yai village outside Pai, Thailand, in December 2009

Burning rubbish

Burning rubbish at the Aboriginal outstation of Donydji in Arnhem Land in September 2008. If you click on the photos you can see the fire through the holes in the drum. Not something you can do in the rest of Australia, but this outstation has no rubbish removal service.

Dustbin palms

Dustbin with a palm motif in the mall in Darwin in September 2008. It is also reflecting a palm and there is a palm behind it which makes for a slightly surreal picture:-)

Trash

A long line of dustbins at Randwick in Sydney taken in February 2007. Or should that be trash cans, Garbage bins, wheelie bins or rubbish bins? Who says English is homogeneous?