The Controversy about the true History and origin of Skip Bins?
Strange Beginnings If you try to look into the History of the skip bin hire industry, you will find some strange and funny ideas about when and where the industry started. So, to help with a reference point, my concept of the skip bin hire industry is that it is a sub-section of the waste removal industry that started around a hundred years ago, in the late 1920's. There was a need to improve the collection of waste from a location for an individual entity. That was that the service was focused on the needs of an individual or a business and wasn't a service for a community of people. Mis-givings about names and titles I have read a few strange articles about the source of the name of the containers used for waste disposal. They imagine that the name for the containers was derived from conical baskets that were woven from willow. These seem like a long shot because there are many other terms that would be used in the waste industry for containers used to carry rubbish. Before t...