There is nothing worse than a smelly bin. If it’s outside the home it can cause a nuisance to neighbours, attract vermin and make your home unpleasant to visitors, while a stinky bin inside the home will make the whole house smell and can take ages to air. The biggest weapon against bin smells is [...]
Category Archives: dustbin
Rubbish on the Streets
The streets of the UK are awash with rubbish at the moment. So many areas, from Birmingham to Exeter, Milton Keynes to Thame, mountains of rubbish remains uncollected – some areas not having a collection for over a month. Caused by the winter weather disruption and council strikes, the waste is becoming a problem in [...]
Rubbish Bins for Business – Keeping the Outside Clean
The outside of any business is important. Image and the way a company presents itself are key factor’s to any business reputation and there is no more a direct face of any company than the front of the premises. And while many businesses hire office cleaners and ensure the interior work space is kept well [...]
Rubbish Bin Trouble Around the Home – Reducing Smells, Mess and Pests
There is a growing rise in the number of local authorities restricting their rubbish collections to bi-weekly. This fortnightly collection policy is causing householders a problem in that they have to store twice as much rubbish in their homes, for twice as long. The problem with having too much refuse lying about is that it [...]
Rubbish and Pests – Eliminating Mess, Vermin and Smells
In the good old days many home owners had a large metal dustbin that they would place all their rubbish into before placing the large heavy lid on top. However, times move on and very few of us have a metal rubbish bin; instead a wide variety of wheelie bins and recycling bins adorn our [...]
Weird and Novel Bins
Litter and rubbish bins are a practical and important part of keeping the world clean. We couldn’t live without them and one is probably sat no more than a few feet from you as you read this, but very few of us pay the humble rubbish bin any attention. However, there are a few people [...]
The World’s Wackiest Bins
Most of us have a rubbish bin sat at the front of the house. There must be millions of them up and down the country but other than on rubbish day when someone comes round to empty them, few of us ever give the bin a second thought. However, there are people who have looked [...]
Make Recycling Bins work for You!
There was a time that most of us had only one bin. A large plastic or metal container that sat in the back yard or alley. All our household waste would end up in this dustbin, which was conveniently emptied, without contention, every week. But times move on and now with more and more emphasis [...]
Why the Dustbin Matters – Importance of the External Bin
They say that in the city, you are never more than ten yards from a rat, whether this is true or not, one thing is clear, if you live in an urban area rubbish bags and unsecured bins are a real menace when it comes to attracting vermin. The increase in littering around the cities [...]
History of the Dustbin
Most of us have one and probably have done for most of our lives but very few of us give the humble dustbin much thought. But in fact the dustbin has gone through dramatic changes which have coincided with changes that our society has been through over the last hundred years of so. Whether you [...]
