This is odd, I looked it up on streeview. The street is a U-shape, and all the colony-type houses seem to have their individual green wheely bins. Where the picture is being posed is off the lane at the end of the street, which leads through an alleyway into some further residences and the "Scott of Dalry" yard.
You can see the comunal bin in question through the alleyway, on the street view.
Now, I assume the bin motor has been able to get round and do the green wheely bins and it's just the communal bin that's the issue.
Begs two questions;
1 - why can the green bins be collected but not the communal bin
2 - the communcal bins in question have wheels (not the ones picked up directly off the street, side-on). The bin men wheel them to the back of the wagon to empty them. It surely wouldn't take a few minutes or so to wheel the bin down the lane, unload it, then push the empty bin back up. It would certainly be more time efficient than attempting to go back on multiple occassions.
It's a very narrow old colony street. You only have to look at the streetview to see a good deal of pavement parking (which still leads the street half-blocked anyway). Frankly I'm amazed at the lack of yellow lines on the street, for most of it's length you can park on BOTH sides!