‘To make everyone smile’, Australians dress up while taking bins out

Social media videos show people taking their rubbish bins out in different costumes in Australia

RESENDING WITH COMPLETE SCRIPT SHOWS: PERTH, WESTERN AUSTRALIA, AUSTRALIA (APRIL 3, 2020) (ORIGINALLY SHOT IN PORTRAIT) (MELISSA PFLUGMACHER - MUST ON SCREEN COURTESY MELISSA PFLUGMACHER) 1.

ALBERT PFLUGMACHER WEARING IRON MAN COSTUME TAKING RUBBISH BIN OUT HERVEY BAY, QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA (APRIL 3, 2020) (ORIGINALLY SHOT IN PORTRAIT) (KRISTY LEE DUFFY - MUST ON SCREEN COURTESY KRISTY LEE DUFFY) 2.

EIGHT-YEAR-OLD GIRL WEARING UNICORN COSTUME TAKING RUBBISH BIN OUT CEDAR VALE, QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA (APRIL 1, 2020) (ORIGINALLY SHOT IN PORTRAIT) (TEAL BAUNACH / ANDY MARSH - NO RESALE / MUST ON SCREEN COURTESY TEAL BAUNACH / ANDY MARSH) (MUTE) 3.

ANDY MARSH WEARING WOMAN'S BEACH SUIT DANCING AROUND RUBBISH BIN AND TAKING IT OUT 4.

TEAL BAUNACH WEARING BEACH SUIT DANCING AROUND RUBBISH BIN AND TAKING IT OUT CEDAR VALE, QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA (MARCH 25, 2020) (ORIGINALLY SHOT IN PORTRAIT) (TEAL BAUNACH / ANDY MARSH - NO RESALE / MUST ON SCREEN COURTESY TEAL BAUNACH / ANDY MARSH) 5.

TEAL BAUNACH WEARING BLACK DRESS TAKING RUBBISH BIN OUT 6.

ANDY MARSH WEARING BLACK TANK TOP AND BLACK SKIRT DANCING WHILE TAKING RUBBISH BIN OUT STORY: Australians started a social media stunt, where they dressed up in different costumes to take their bins out during the coronavirus lockdown.

"My daughter wanted to sprinkle some unicorn love to make everyone smile - even just for five minutes," Kristy Lee Duffy from Hervey Bay, Queensland, who filmed her eight-year-old daughter wearing a unicorn costume, told Reuters.

Other videos show Albert Pflugmacher from Perth wearing an Iron Man costume and a couple from Cedar Vale, Queensland wearing women's beach suits and holding cocktails while dancing around the bin.

(Production: George Sargent, Oleksandr Ieltsov)