Your bin men seem to be a lot more high tech than ours - ours have to place 2 wheelie bins at a time on a jig at the back of the lorry. I guess a mechanical arm is not so practical here due to narrow streets and pig **** thick bin men who'd probably smash up all of the parked cars with the mechanical boom arm.
Where I live, if you put loose rubbish in the bin it doesn't get collected. Odd huh? Big plastic bin, but you still have to have a bag.