More and more offices and businesses are becoming aware of the need to be more environmentally friendly and work with a more eco-friendly ethos behind them. Recycling is part of this process and as many people spend a large proportion of their lives at the office or workplace, recycling here can have huge benefits to [...]
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Spring Time and Garden Waste Bins
With spring around the corner it is a good time to begin preparing the garden for the warmer months. At this time of year a lot of garden waste can have built up over the winter and not only can it take a lot of work to get things in order, a decent gardening bin [...]
Bin Safety and Security
Waste bins are an important aspect of waste management and keeping institutions and public locations clean and rubbish free, but there are several aspects of providing waste receptacles for the general public in these locations that have to be considered when installing public bins. Locations like hospitals, hotels, airports and other transport hubs where members [...]
Sourcing Office Bins
As offices are busy places, where people can spend a large proportion of their working lives, they are also busy places for rubbish and waste. Office bins have to cope with a wide variety of waste and choosing office bins can be a challenge, especially with more emphasis on recycling. So knowing what bin to [...]
Using Recycling Bins
There was a time that on an evening the day before the binmen came we didn’t have to do a thing. Early in the morning, the dustmen would come down the garden bath, take our sturdy dustbin and empty into the back of the waste compactor. Things, however, have changed. Most of us now have [...]
Recycling at Work
The workplace generates a lot of waste. No matter whether you work in an office, warehouse, factory or outside, waste is a natural by-product of nearly every occupation. A lot of what we throw away when we are at work, however, can be recycled and it is increasingly important that we think abut the environment [...]
Food Disposal and Waste Management
Disposing of so much food brings with it many problems but many of those can be solved by good waste management and the correct rubbish bin. The amount of food that is disposed of waste bins in the UK alone, is staggering. Shops and takeaways dispose of 1.6 million tonnes of food each year; manufactures [...]
Parks and Open Spaces – Litter Bins
Britain has the largest number of public parks and open spaces than any other country in Europe. There are dozens of urban parklands in many of our major cities and conurbations. However, as pleasurable as these urban natural oasis are they are expensive to maintain. Councils and local authorities have to invest huge amounts of [...]
Reducing Bin Smells
One of the biggest nuisances about bins is the smells hat can often be produced. Most of us will have come home one evening only to be greeted by the stench of rotting fish, meat of vegetation emanating from the kitchen bin. But bin smells can be prevented and often there is usually a root [...]
Intelligent Bins – Sensor Bins
When it comes to disposing of rubbish, there is only one place it can go: the rubbish bin. However, the process of disposing of rubbish can be problematic in certain scenarios. Cooks, medical practitioners and people who work in the food industry are frequent users of waste bins, however, the problem for these people and [...]
Starting a Catering Business? Don’t Forget the Bins.
In every business there is waste. From discarded paper to scrap metal, waste is part and parcel of all businesses and industry. However, waste management in some business sectors is more important than in others. Catering is one such industry where more thought and consideration has to be placed on the disposal of rubbish than [...]
Types of Waste Bin around the Home
We probably have one in each room of the house and yet very rarely give them a seconds thought but the humble waste bin is an important part of keeping our homes clean and tidy and without them we may find ourselves knee deep in rubbish before we know it. Yet the different types of [...]
Rubbish and Waste – Importance of Landfills
We are all wasteful. Each year, an average person throws out over a tonne of rubbish into our waste bins. And our rubbish bins contain everything from organic and food waste to paper, plastic and even metals. Even though many of us now recycle and use recycling bins, most of us are aware that much [...]
Recycling Bins – Getting it right
Recycling has become a big industry over recent years. Not only are more and more people opting to recycle to ease their environmental conscience but also many local authorities and councils are insisting that residents and businesses start recycling. And fines and penalty notices are now being handed out to home and business owners who [...]
The Sanitary Bin – Washroom Hygiene
The sanitary bin is unlike other waste bins we may have around the home and office. Sanitary bins are designed fro washroom and bathroom locations and as such, are often used to dispose of feminine hygiene products, razor blades and all manner of personal, hygienic and medicinal waste. For this reason the sanitary bin should [...]
