Recycling and Recycling Bins

Recycling is now part of nearly everybody’s life. ‘Taking out the trash’ now involves more than just dumping a black bag out the front for the dustman or garbage collector to pick up. Recycling is now not just an ethical past time but in many areas is also a legal civic duty, with fines and sanctions often given to residents who fail to recycle properly.

Fortunately there is a huge a range of recycling bins available that make the task a lot easier and allows you to easily transport your recyclables to the curbside.

Recycling bins come in all shapes and sizes but most are based on the same principle – that the bins are divided into several compartments for the different recycling materials. Many of the most popular recycling bins on the market have colour coded compartments, this makes it easier to assign a compartment for a type of waste; such as: red for glass and blue for paper.

When shopping for a recycling bin it is best to think about what it will be used for. You may not want a huge 100 litre bin in your kitchen for instance, although it would be great for outside. Likewise a small recycling pedal bin will soon get full so you will be hard pushed to keep an entire week’s worth of recycling in there.

Another purpose of recycling bins, like normal bins, is to keep the smell down, so ensure you get a decent enough sized bin so the lid will close properly.

Pedal bins are great for the kitchen and save you bending or handling the bin itself and some even have colour coded pedals. There are other interesting designs around such as recycling bins that make use of old plastic bags – these make great waste paper baskets and allows you to make use of all those non-degradable plastic bags which are re-used in the bin.

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