And the Lord did decree that there should be a great separating of the rubbish, and he did visiteth upon each household four bins.
'Lo' said he, 'thou shall mix not thy rubbish, for that is not the good and righteous way. Thou shall giveth at least an hour a week to the Great Sorting, and thou shall knowest which of the bins shall be collected on any day of any given month.'
'Lord,' said the householder, 'how am I to know which of the four bins will be collected?'
'Look upon thy neighbour's house,' spaketh the Lord, and spake no more.
And so it came to pass that the Husband of the Householder was lax and indolent, and a plague of maggots came upon the brownest of the bins, which could only be cast out by liberal application of the Fluid of Jeyes amid much wailing and retching.
And it came to pass that the bluest of the bins seemed ever full, and no matter how quietly the Householder tried to drop the empty bottles in, the neighbour of the Householder did knowest that the tinkling sound was not created by jam jars alone.
And the Householder did curse the Lord.