A British inventor has officially pushed trash day into the fast lane.
Michael Wallhead says his souped-up wheelie bin, already a Guinness World Record holder, now hits 66 mph. He first grabbed the title in 2023 with a 55-mph run, then kept tweaking the machine he calls The General Waste.
“The record stands at 55 mph,” Wallhead told Guinness World Records. “But I’ve done 66 now.”
The idea came from fellow speed enthusiast Andy Jennings, who set the original benchmark at 45 mph in 2020. Wallhead saw that and decided a trash can deserved an upgrade.
He bought the bin on Facebook Marketplace for about $25. Then he spent nearly $900 turning it into a road-legal-in-spirit missile, adding a Suzuki GP125 two-stroke engine, go-kart wheels, a rear axle, a five-speed gearbox, a custom chassis, steering damper, and an extra wheel up front.
It still takes out the trash. It just does it at highway speed.
