Get rid of the kitchen bin!!!

[Jodierachel]

Our kitchen bin has broken and any decent looking bin is £50 plus.

I'm seriously considering just having a small handled bag on my door handle and taking the bag to the wheelie bin each night?!

Is that weird? 😂

www.amazon.co.uk/simplehuman-Carrier-Bag-Bin-Holder/dp/B000INDOXY?tag=mumsnetforu03-21

In our first house the kitchen was so tiny we had to have a bag on the door.
I hated it, it fell down frequently, there was always a mess around it, the bags would split.
This was back before the council took recycling and also when carrier bags were free and plentiful.
One of the best things about moving was getting a bin and recycling means there's no food in it so it's not stinky.

I have five bins .One for paper, one for plastic, one for compost, one for glass and one for all that cannot be recycled .I also collect all tins in a bag beside my' plastic' bin.I wish I could use the space for something else but our main bin is so small it would be full in a day and is only collected every two weeks .Cannot imagine not recycling though considering the amount of rubbish we have.

I like not having a bin. I take rubbish out in the morning and the evening. I have a nice plastic container with a lid that I use for small items of rubbish that are waiting to be taken to the bin outside.

I have a built in one that cost a couple of hundred and it's AMAZING 😉 makes the £50 bin seem good value 😁

Two bags on the door. One for cardboard/tins/glass and the other for rubbish.

I really dislike bins

I have the double simple human one. I'd never spent so much on anything like it 12 years ago. It still looks good as new though. My mum and sister have since got the same.

www.johnlewis.com/simplehuman-rectangular-recycler-pedal-bin-brushed-stainless-steel-46l/p3497190

Haha .. we were talking about this yesterday !!! Me and DD and DS loved our system of an old carrier bag hung on a cupboard handle .... then DP .. now DH moved in and wanted a bin ... it's a pain in the arse ... but it's his job to empty the stupid thing as he wanted it !!! I lost it with an old snazzy metal bin .... it was too narrow and one day I was so ragey that the bag was stuck I put the whole bin in the wheelie bin !

We have a Brabantia one, three years and going strong! I think it was a special offer on Amazon for about £40.

I bought some lovely plastic ones that look metallic. Had enough of paying ££££££ for something just to put rubbish in. And the lids seem to be dd proof so far

I’m too miserable to spend a lot of money on a bin, so I have two of these, with different coloured lids. They sit in a discrete area, under the breakfast bar. One for rubbish and the other for recycles.

I forgot to add that they’re quite small.

Got rid of mine months ago. We have a carrier bag on a hook at one end of the kitchen which I take out every day. Recycling sits on the worktop until someone is going downstairs and puts it in the recycling bin.

I was sick to death of having a large kitchen bin which everyone else would continue to jam pack until it wouldnt close and the bag inside would split and I'd be left cleaning manky bin juice out of it before I could replace the bag.

I think I'd do a carrier bag holder thing on the inside of a cupboard rather than do away with it altogether.

We have food waste collection in our area and I love it. All the skanky stuff goes in the small food waste bin and neither the main bin nor the recycling bin get that dirty. We have open bins for them under the sink. I thought that would be horrid but with all the smelly stuff going in the food waste, it's fine, and much less effort IMO than doing daily bin runs.

We just have a bag and chuck it out each night.

Dunelm have some cheapish pedal bins. I would hate to have to take a bag of rubbish out every night.

It's a big waste of single-use plastic to use a bag every single day. Far better to use a bigger bag, and use it over several days.

And anyway, it looks horrible having a plastic bag hanging from a door handle.

🤔 That is a lot of plastic bags going into landfill.

I have a Brabantia which I bought in a sale. It has a touch lid. I have a compost bin near the sink which is emptied every morning when I go to feed the chickens. I have two large Ikea white bin boxes which we put the recycling in and another box and two bags all in the shed near the kitchen. We have a small oblong box on the counter near the door (mainly for when it is pouring down) which we put some items in. The two Ikea boxes stack and I have bottles in one and plastic in the other. The bags from the council have paper /card and tins in the other the box is for random stuff. When the boxes are full DH takes them to a nearby village hall and separates and chucks them in. The Primary School and the hall split the proceeds. We used to have them in our village but there were so many bottles that people left them and some yobs smashed them so they thought it was a hazard. People in our village obviously drink more 😁as we are the smaller of the two. We also have a pub! The tenants have left this month 😥

I got rid of my expensive one and opted for a black Addis one. The higher priced ones just rust and I can bleach my plastic one and wipe it without it rusting!

There's the same amount of plastic in a big bag as there is in two smaller ones.
Mine are filled to capacity, the amount of plastic covering has to be identical

I only chuck them into the outside bin when they're full; all my food waste goes into the food waste bin in a biodegradable bag.

Our kitchen has pull out bins (fitted when we moved in) I was sceptical but there is no mess, no smell, one takes simplehuman bags and the other mixed dry recycling. I would definitely choose it again.