I'm seeing more and more of these around London and the SE of the UK. Bins made of clear plastic bin liner so you can see what's in the rubbish. I have this horrible feeling that this is an anti-terrorist, anti-riot thing allied to public safety announcements about reporting unattended baggage. It makes me want to fantasise about dropping a smoke grenade into them, except that of course the heat would mean it would just burn straight through the bin liner. 

There's a delightfully "New Aesthetic" comment at the bottom of the tumblr post with reference to "the bin icon doesn't resemble the actual bin" "Failed skeuomorphism. We need... [a,sic] catchy word for that."
Twitter / Kisa:"This bin has a bin icon on it to... »
Twitter / Kisa:"This bin has a bin icon on it to let you know it's a bin. Yet the bin icon doesn't resemble the actual bin."

[from: Google+ Posts]


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