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Govbins: A gallery of UK government bin designs

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Please submit your bin photos, wherever you are in the world.

https://govbins.uk/submit-photos

Thanks for any feedback :)

Harry, co-maker of #govbins

Lovely website and incredibly consistent. What a treasure trove.

Hey, one man’s trash(bin) is another man’s treasure!

Once found the site of a a Russian travel photo blogger who’d been almost everywhere and had a particular fondness for fire hydrants, street signs, bollards, trash cans, and so on. It was weirdly fascinating, I must have looked over dozens of his trip pages and many hundreds of photos. I lost the link though and it’s either gone or a victim of modern search-engine weakness.

Here you go https://www.tema.ru/eng/travel/

He also has a youtube (in russian) where he publishes the newer content.

Not gonna lie: I’d been waiting years(!) to catch a relevant post for “photos of dull stuff in public” on the front page early enough to post about that and probably have enough people see it that I’d get that link. Thanks!

That guy comes off as an asshole:

https://www.tema.ru/eng/travel/kiev.2015.05/

Lots of people do and are. I try to not judge people on old blog posts about complex issues I don't really understand. Aside from that, I don't let people being assholes stop me from learning about trashcan and sidewalks.

Read quite a bit of that one, didn’t see anything bad. It’s in Standard Internet Tone but pretty mild. Having to couch everything in the gentlest terms and preface any snark or impolite observation with a paragraph of disclaimers so people don’t mistake you for The Bad Guys is a the-last-decade thing, and doesn’t seem to exist much outside the Anglosphere, where Standard Internet Tone continues to rule.

Guy may be an asshole, but I read about half that page and didn’t see it.

I guess you might like this:

The World Bollard Association

https://mobile.twitter.com/worldbollard

the trash (or should I say 'rubbish'?) equivalent of 2600's 'payphones of the world'

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