In the event of an attack the bins are designed to explode upwards

More than 2,000 bins were cleared from the Square Mile after a truck bomb killed one person and injured 44.

This weekend 20 new blast-proof bins are being introduced on a trial basis after complaints about litter.

It does seem to have taken them time to install. Though what is it with people just throwing rubbish on the streets? Why not take it to the office or home and throw it away there?

It sounds more like the nightlife's doing going by the article, which is sorta to be expected. Though you can certainly walk for miles without seeing a bin in parts of Belfast, and when you do it's often illogically placed! God only knows what it's like in some of the more rural areas...

When you're blotto and eating a semi-poisonous kebab the entire world's different

No even when I am pissed as a fart I do not litter. Though does throwing up a dodgy kebab count?


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It does seem to have taken them time to install. Though what is it with people just throwing rubbish on the streets? Why not take it to the office or home and throw it away there?

Blast resistant litter bins have been introduced in London's Bishopsgate 20 years after they were removed following an IRA attack.

More than 2,000 bins were cleared from the Square Mile after a truck bomb killed one person and injured 44.

I do wonder how well someone would fair if hit by a heavy bin dropping out of the sky after it's been launched upwards.

Being cynical, that's one person as oppose to the number the bomb would have killed if it had gone off in an ordinary bin. However, this is a case of not just bolting the door after the horse has fled, this is after it has fled, got to another stable, lived a long and happy life and died of old age.

So the bins are now bomb proof? Fine. Your terrorist just puts it somewhere in the whole rest of the town that isn't bomb-proof then. 11-9? Not bins. 7/7? Not bins. Boston? Not bins.

The problem is if you are there for hours. It is the same on the underground. Here, ever carriage has a dozen bins and each platform has large 3 way bins (paper, plastic and rest). And drink bottle are taken to the next shop to get your 25c back. In London we had to carry them for hours at a time, until we finally found a bin or got back to the hotel - which wasn't really equipped to cope with the rubbish accumulated by a family of 4 over a complete day.