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69Original versions came with the word PUSH helpfully embossed into the swing top, just in case there was any confusion about where to throw the banana peel.There aren%u2019t many Australians who haven%u2019t lobbed a banana peel at a Nylex Swing-Top bin hoping it would go straight in, only to see the lid spin and the peel slide down the bin and onto the%u00a0floor. That%u2019s not to say that the bin has a design fault %u2013 far from it. It%u2019s more an indication of a typical Australian response to using a bin. This much-used and arguably underrated bin was designed in 1966 in Melbourne for Nylex by%u00a0 Lionel Suttie, who later went on to be the company%u2019s head of design. Lionel%u2019s innovative design did away with the hassle of constantly having to lift the lid before putting your rubbish in the bin. Now all you had to do was push the lid and drop your banana peel straight in.YEAR 1966DESIGNER Lionel SuttieMANUFACTURER NylexOriginal versions came with the word PUSH helpfully embossed into the swing top, just in case there was any confusion about where to throw the banana peel, and their fashionable colours made them an instant hit in the modern kitchens of the 1960s and 1970s. Despite a switch to integrated bins in recent years, the Swing-Top Tidy is still in production and%u00a0 continues to gobble and hide empty Tim Tam packets properly inserted by guilt-ridden Australians.