I'm seeing more and more of these around London and the SE of the UK. Bins made of clear plastic bin liner so you can see what's in the rubbish. I have this horrible feeling that this is an anti-terrorist, anti-riot thing allied to public safety announcements about reporting unattended baggage. It makes me want to fantasise about dropping a smoke grenade into them, except that of course the heat would mean it would just burn straight through the bin liner.
There's a delightfully "New Aesthetic" comment at the bottom of the tumblr post with reference to "the bin icon doesn’t resemble the actual bin" "Failed skeuomorphism. We need... [a,sic] catchy word for that."
And of course, its worse than that. Why does a blog about the "New Aesthetic" focus on the design failure of the icon rather than ask that question? It's as if they're arguing about the CCTV warning rather than smashing the camera.