The four bins announce their gastronomic preference: two salivate over dry waste and the other two over biodegradable, wet waste. But the public is bent on starving these bins, by dumping the garbage tantalisingly around them and not in them. The image was taken on October 8, 2025.
| Photo Credit: PRINCE FREDERICK
Sitting open-mouthed, four interlinked bins make a neat row, their backsides nearly brushing against the compound wall of the Mounted Police campus. The Municipal Magistrate Courts (popularly called Egmore Court Complex) is next-door neighbour to the Mounted Police, and the complex’s red heritage structure looms in the backdrop, if you take a transverse view of the bins and their precincts on the north-western side. In this environment of order, the four interlinked bins sit as a tandem unit in an attitude of discipline by the side of Adithanar Salai in Pudupet, Egmore. To a motorhead, they might come across as being as neatly placed as cylinders in an inline-four engine. But these “cylinders” are not firing. And it is not their fault.
One of the four bins, one that seeks wet waste, its staple diet placed next to it. The image was taken on October 8, 2025. Photos: Prince Frederick
