Frogleg wrote in
:

We put the wheely bins out at the curb, and they're
collected by 1-man trucks with automatic grabbing arms, rather than
individuals who empty bins or collect bags.

Living in a city has some compensations then!

I don't think that would work in our narrow, steep and winding cornish
lanes, where every house is a different distance from the road, and there
is certainly no curb (or for that matter, pavement).

The houses are quite widely separated too, and I think one reason the
collection service is so limited is that running collection services over a
long distance for each house is relatively expensive.

Your grabbing trucks might be able to pick up rubbish for 10 houses in, say
200 yards : our binmen might have to travel half a mile or more to do the
same number of houses.

Victoria