It cost me a solar panel a while back which was annoying but not as annoying as the monthly damage and destruction of the recycling and household waste bins as well as the litter strewn across the mountainside.
So recently I decided it was high time I built a more robust bin refuge, this needed to be in a location directly adjacent to the collection point so that the bins would still be available for collection once every three weeks for the household waste and weekly for the recycling boxes.
I decided on Gabion baskets to provide the necessary wind deflection and offer a strong anchor point, these would be filled from the copious waste slate and overburden tips that pepper the maintains around where I live so a little bit of upcycling of waste material potentially, and creating a habitat for insects, local sand lizards etc. The gabions were 1m x 0.8m x 0.3m two were set at 1m high and tied in at right angles to two set at 0.8m high the old fence line was then cut and will be tied in to the 0.8m basket ends to retain the fence exclusion for the wondering sheep and cattle.
) will shade the panel at different levels depending on the time of year and the need to lift the bin lids to drop bags in limits the slop to the south to a very small 6ish degrees but this is a prototype and better than a static east facing panel only IMHO. The wind figures were : 100mph at 90 degrees =284.5kg force - I take this to be the very worst case as the panel area is slightly over calculated, the panel would never be at 90 degrees to the prevailing wind, we have only ever seen one gust of wind exceed 100mph (105mph) and we have at least 5 times the ballast required. more realistic wind loads would be of the order of 73kgf or 60mph at 45 degrees. 
