oh well..those garbage bins were ugly anyway. hehehe.

awesome find! :D

What a great find!

I realy love your shot of the garbage bins. I wonder how they are going to recycle them?

Nice find, I love the centre blue bin and the twisted up bike in the background (above left behind the bins).

TTC's hideout Nice and curious shot Sam! ;)

very moving, great photo

"Reduce" the terrorist threat, recklessly treat the environment by just throwing your litter on a pile. When will people ever learn?

Nice photo nonetheless.

great picture, but it makes me sad that these were just dumped. The recycling message doesn't seem to be getting out. Although the bins are!

Excellent find, Sam! Its funny how familiar the bins are, even in a pile of trash.

Hehe, it's kinda ironic that they claim "We recycle" and then dump the bins in the park! ;)

Do you have a landscape version of this for a widescreen wallpaper?

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Good photo, but why don't they recycle the rubbish bins, they'd make interesting plant pots.

Thank you for posting this picture. I am very, very angry. The bright light that did this should be given a pink slip.

I'm a little surprised that the City of Toronto would choose to dispose of the bins at the park.

Readers not familiar with the park might ask why it contains a barren spot with hunks of concrete: it's because Tommy Thompson park has been developed on a peninsula built of earth fill, dredged sand, and concrete from excavation sites in the city. Parts of the peninsula, or "spit," haven't been made park-like yet, and I believe the spit is still being extended. Still, I don't think subway bins fit into the plans.

Ive been looking through your photos and you are amazing. I dont think ive seen such wonderful photos such as yours. Keep it up!

One of the hardest things I've found to photograph is a grey ground with little stones and weeds groing here and there. You've managed to capture that same ground (in the foreground) in way that compliments the photo. Love the glossiness of the bins! Overall, very interesting photograph. Reminds me of some work by Edward Burtynsky.

I've never been to Tommy Thompson park, and if this is what it looks like, it may stay as a very low priority on my list of parks to visit. Looks like more of an abandoned wasteland than a park. Still, it's an interesting shot.

Just curious what camera you carry with you when you're cycling?

i really like this picture probably because of the randomness of the garbage bins very cool and also the skyline in the back is neat.

And they just dumped them in a park somewhere like that?!? That's awful!

Hmph! "WE RECYCLE", indeed!

What a relieve ! Now that the garbage bins are gone, we all can get on the subway trains safe and sound !!!!
But honestly, what are they going to do now? replace them with see through bins?
Very nice find and photo WVS!

TT Park is a bird habitat. It's now being extended with construction debris as fill. As if concrete chunks and re-bar isn't bad enough, but now the city is letting this kind of stuff get dumped there!! The Park is not a landfill - but the City is certainly treating it like one!

Great photo! Why use a park as a dump? I've never been to this park so I did some searching and found an interesting link for anyone who wants to know more about it:

http://www.trca.on.ca/parks_and_culture/places_to_visit/tommy_thompson/

For everyone upset at the dumping of these bins in a park- as mentioned by others the 'park' is part nature preserve and part working landfill. In essence these are being recycled, or at least disposed of in the proper way.

These bins appeared a few weeks back on a section that is being expanded further into the lake to create coves along the coast. At some point they will be pushed over the edge to join the other concrete and rubble and once done nature will start claiming this section of the park. The seabirds especially love this rubble stage of park development.

Sam, you should buy a kickstand!

Who wants to help me lug one home?

Curiously enough about two weeks ago I started seeing newspapers dumped all around King Station in the morning (that's where I take my train to go to work). I'll try to catch a picture, that's what happens for removing garbage bins.

My first thought when the image was down to the point of the bike being backgroud was - is that junk or Sam's bike left while he sussed the shot. Of course it would take too long to move it out as not relevant. Walking around gets to you, eh? You might PhotoShop it out however, with a copy patch to cover the spot. I sort of like it there though.

Good to see you're part of a panel on blogging Toronto - you are doing a magnificent job of it. I'm jealous but then I'm not in Toronto to compete with you. Have fun and don't forget to photograph it. Um? Could you forget?

i love the blue "we recycle" sign on one of the garbage bins. i think they LIE.

Woah it's ironic because it says "We Recycle" but it looks like these bins won't be recycled any time soon.

i find it highly ironic that bins saying "we recycle" are left to rot. hmmm.

nice find.

Am I the only one cracking up at the number of people commenting on the irony of the "we recycle" signs? Of course, by now, I'm probably not the first to say this.

Comment approval be damned!

I love this pic! amazing how you make garbage bins look so photogenic.

I've yet to run across an artist who is as talented at photographing garbage as yourself. Your other shot of a Pepsi container amid glass shards was another superb piece of work.

Well done. As usual.

The bins around Sydney stations (subways) were also removed for similar reasons. The effect of this is quite sad as people are continuously leaving their rubbish behind, thus creating more work for the station staff.

I wonder where our bins are..

Heh, if you want to re-tile your bathroom, you just gotta chip off the ones from these bins! Those red one's could be pretty cool.

The miracle container.
No more naive.
Statue of fear.
Empty bin.

this is not exacltly a park....tommy tompson park is a park yes but where this photo was taken is actually an active clean fill garbage dump near the park. the city and private contractors can dump clean fill(soil, concrete, rocks, ect) and it is used to reclaim land from the lake. this is an active dump and has beed for decades. as the leslie street spit grows in size the park also grows. this IS recycling as in time the bins will be covered with soil and planted with trees. return in a decade and you will probably find plants and wildlife where these bins are now.