There’s something about the Boston Globe. Hard on the heels of columnist Alex Beam’s “not by a long chalk” comes this from his fellow columnist Yvonne Abraham: “Occasionally, the eye-popping cost of a blood test gives us pause, but generally, we bin without a second thought.”
“Bin”–meaning to throw something in the rubbish bin (meaning the garbage can)–is not only rare in the United States, it’s non-existent. I can say that because Lynne Murphy of Separated by a Common Language took the trouble to trawl the massive Corpus of Contemporary American English and find that it contains not a single instance of “bin” as a verb.
Googling “Yvonne Abraham” provides an explanation: as she says in this interview (and as her accent makes obvious), she hails from Australia. But as Jan Freeman (who alerted me to the quote) points out, “I doubt that her editor is also from a bin-speaking nation.”
notoneoffbritishisms.com 
I guess that’ll be because you don’t have “rubbish bins”, you have “trash cans”.
Don’t you have ‘Sin Bins’ in American sport? I thought that’s where ice-hockey players spend most of their working lives.
‘Ice-hockey’ is not an ‘American’ (well continental, yes, but not country) sport. They do play it but so do Russians, Swedes, Finns and many others. However, it’s a, perhaps ‘the’, Canadian sport. And, yes, it has ‘sin bins’ (penalty boxes).
We also have ‘loony bins’, a non-PC term referring to a mental hospital or a place for the detention of the ‘criminally insane’. I have heard it said, of persons, that they ‘should be in the bin’, meaning a loony bin.
We have many types of bin eg, in a parts warehouse or other store, full of small parts, screws, washers, etc. It’s just rubbish bins that are rare. We call the ones that the ‘bin men’ empty, ‘garbage cans’ and the ones in the office ‘wastepaper baskets or ‘waste baskets’.
‘Trash’ is a US term and not widely used in Canada. At least, I’ve never used it, except.for its alliterative value, in terms like ‘trailer trash’.
In Canada, default ‘hockey’ is played on ice; the grass game is ‘field-hockey’. I realize that in other parts of the Commonwealth, default ‘hockey’ is played on grass and the ice game is ‘ice-hockey’.
Bin is definitely used as a verb in the US, but usually to refer dividing measurement data into categorical bins to make histograms (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_binning). Google the term “bin the data” and you’ll see numerous examples from the US and elsewhere.
We have trash bins, garbage bins, and now recycle bins, all right — we just don’t have the verb. Not sure why, since it seems totally transparent; whatever the reason, we make do with “trashed” or “tossed.”
Maybe it’s a Bostonian thing. I’m an 8th generation Bostonian and I can recall the word “bin” often used in everyday conversation. The laundry bin, garbage bin, etc. but my grandparents are British living in Boston so maybe that’s where I heard it most often. Still though, it was an accepted local word.
Not exactly relevant, because here “bin” is a noun, but about 30 years ago, I did a trade show at Wembley Conference Center. We asked people who wanted more information to fill out a card, which we then slipped through a slot in the countertop into a locked container.
A lady came by and asked for her card back, because she’d forgotten to note her mail stop on it. I said, “I’m afraid I’ve already put it into the bin.” She looked at me in horror, until I realized what I’d said and explained that as a Yank, I meant something rather different to what she did.
FYI- https://theconversation.com/are-those-damned-americanisms-really-american-32566
The American-turned Brit-turned American writer Bill Bryson, in his book A Walk in the Woods, discusses the founder of the Appalachian Trail, Benton MacKaye. According to Bryson, MacKaye, when he worked for the U.S. Labor Department, “dutifully produced ambitious, unworkable proposals that were read with amused tolerance and promptly binned.”
This is one of the few Celtic-absorbed words in English … at least in its noun form