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We're back with another interesting and skip-related article. Who'd have thought so much interesting material would have turned up for something commonly thought to be so mundane? But as always; when you push below the surface all evidence points to the contrary.

 

 

 

What on earth is this? It's a solar powered dumpster. That's right. Waste containment has never been so green! We found this beauty on treehugger.com; apparently a Mr. Ray Saluccio of EarthSure has designed this interesting solar-skip to put more energy back into the mains system as well as to stop people from breaking into waste containment facilities in order to distribute whatever they pull out liberally over mother Earth. Thanks Ray!

 

 

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A skip Jacuzzi - wacky or what? Looking at the skip hire Hinckley has available? Well unfortunately you won't be able to rent one of these bad boys from us. The inside has obviously been cleaned and re-painted (and probably filled with boiling bubbling water a few times). The man relaxing inside seems to be content that his experience is sufficiently clean, who are we to argue semantics?

 

 There are many skips Leicester has dotted around, but you won't see one of these – or at least, not above ground! It's only right that our final wacky skip entry has some sense of 'the end'. The guys over at Crazy Coffins build coffins shaped as all kinds of objects. Skateboards, guitars – and yes, skips! Too morbid? Ok then; we'll try to end with something happier next time.

 

It's been an interesting web-crawl, and we hope to share another with you soon! 

Skips and dumpsters – we run some of the best skip hire Leicester has to offer - and you've seen them everywhere you go. Although sometimes viewed as a bit of an eyesore; skips and dumpsters have ironically provided a stable base for street-artists over the years. Whether this is because no one really cares what a skip looks like since it is present only on a temporary basis, or whether this is due to the fact the risk of prosecution for adding one's artwork to a skip is unlikely and the frame of your average skip is well-suited to being sprayed, no one knows. We take you now on a short journey through the artistic potential of (believe it or not) the skip!

 

 

 

This startling and colourful image on the side of an enclosed waste holding facility shares an uncanny resemblance to a certain circus performer. Perhaps the artist simply finds clowns to be intimidating?

 

 

 

An interesting design – and an interesting word to place on the side of a skip. Does this mean a tear such as that which would fall from an eye, or does it refer to tearing something as you would tear a sheet of paper in half?

 

 

Maybe not something you've seen on any of the skips leicester lying about. A dog painted on the side of a small waste containment dumpster/skip. If you look closely, there are interesting markings surrounding the right-hand eye – and is there a face within the mouth?

 

 

A rather cryptic piece of art on the side of this rubbish-holding revelation. Perhaps this could be a statement on the impersonal focus on communication through technology? Or maybe the ominous imagery is just for shock-and-show.

 

 

It seems only fitting to end this blog with a tribute to the popular and political graffiti artist "Banksy". Alright, so this isn't strictly a skip - it's a bottle bank. Banksy recently set up an exhibition (now closed) in the Bristol museum. It's well worth a Google – if you're interested in art and political statements. Above, note the characters which appear on Elmo's play building blocks. Is that a mask over his face?

 

We hope that through this blog, you might have realised that skips can have some pretty interesting uses besides just retaining rubbish! More interesting skip-related posts to come soon...