'I've got an unusual obsession - and my wife is not impressed'

A dad has created a ‘rubbish calendar’ - featuring 12 of his town's best bins.

Andy Bailey, 50, known as the ‘bin-influencer’, created his masterpiece after spending a year ranking around 130 local waste disposal units.

His intrigue was piqued when he started noticing the strange variety of different litter containers throughout Congleton, Cheshire, in December last year.

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And the dad of four then shared pictures of them on social media - scoring them out of 25 on ‘personality, placement, popularity, performance and pristineness’.

Andy, who also gives the bins nicknames based on their appearance, has now created the one-of-a-kind calendar showcasing his favourite ‘dirty dozen’.

He said: “I was giving them a score out of 25, and filming a few videos as it kept me busy. And a few people said to me, ‘This would make a great calendar.’ When I got to October, I thought, ‘Well, let’s have a go’.

“Part of the ‘joke’ is the calendar is fairly high end - with one of those hangers at the top. So it kind of punctuates the fact that it’s about bins even more so.

"A lot of people like the idea of having a calendar, but does anybody want to buy one?"

Andy said he became intrigued by the bizarre selection of public bins in his town while taking his kids to a park shortly before the start of this year.

And the charity fundraiser, who had never bothered using the picture-sharing platform Instagram, then started up an account and began posting images of them.

He said: “One of the kids mentioned that all the bins in the park were different and there were standout ones that had been there for donkeys years.

“I thought nothing of it. But when