“Despite their innocent appearance, dustbins occupy a critical position in any narrative of waste management. Being situated at the interface of private lives and household practices, on the one hand, and public health and environmental management on the other, dustbin technologies provide a revealing indicator of waste-relationships within society.”
Heather Chappells and Elizabeth Shove titled “Bins and the history of waste relations.”
http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/fass/projects/esf/bins.htm
