Space-saving triple trashcan
Designers Guisset Constance & Cid Grégory have a fantastic concept for a space-saving triple trashcan that looks like it'd even fit in my minuscule London kitchen.
Three Garbages in One Garbage
The left pedal opens the highest can in a traditional way. This can is for general discarding. A bag dispenser is available here. The middle pedal makes the second can rotate around a decentered axe. This can is for packaging, plastic etc. The right pedal makes the last can move towards the user. The last can is for glass discarding.
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and now I get to take out my waste three times as often :P
Hmm. Not sure why you need the bottom to move as well when the middle swivels out, opening in two directions at the bottom means you can't actually put this in a constrained space.
So, no. Most folk I know use something more like this:
http://www.homerecycling.co.uk/catalogue.php?product_id=17
although you can get bins which are don't sport the industrial grotesque look /and actually exist/ too:
http://www.simplehuman.co.uk/products/recycling-solutions/deluxe-butterfly-recycler.php
The bmw ecopod deserves a mention too ( http://images.google.co.uk/images?q=%22ecopod%20e1%22 ), but I'm not sure if thats really for sale either.
and the compost?!?! not even a mention
and your lovingly sorted garbage will be taken by your cash-strapped local government and thrown into a common grave and set on fire.
That contraption looks like the type of thing that will break 3 weeks after you buy it.
Never mind that as Takuan implies above most recycling is currently not profitable so your local government is probably just throwing all the recyclables away, or paying extra (over the cost of hauling trash) for the privilege of having someone recycle waste.
How about redirect this design not to contain trash but to recycling?
Plastic, paper and glass.
@2: The Simple Human trash bin costs over one HUNDRED pounds? Did I read that right?
"@2: The Simple Human trash bin costs over one HUNDRED pounds? Did I read that right?"
Hey, it aint easy being green.
Bazzargh is right...this doesn't make sense. a skinny traditional trash can would actually take up less space. i think you need this trash can if you are a bored person who needs a lot of s*** to distract you.
Last time I was in Japan, there were thirteen kinds of trash to separate. It was mandatory! My family just used little clear plastic shopping bags all hung on hooks. Worked great. With a weekly pickup calendar on the wall above.
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That's not their fault, it's because these guys aren't paying them for it any more.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/jan/09/recycling-global-recession-china
Hm. We just set the recycling on the counter. If it starts to get in the way I have a child carry it out to the big bin in the garage.
It's nice having a single-stream system. The bin has an RFID tag of some sort. The truck weighs the bin when they collect it and the credit our account with the weight. Occasionally they're supposed to credit us some money for the weight (not much, maybe 20 bucks every 3 months).
They don't take glass in my area, but not much comes in glass any more anyway.
I could definitely go for a cleverly designed worm bin though. Maybe one that sits under the sink on slide-out rails, and has little compartments to keep the usual under-sink detritus organized.
Hm. My needs are different -- trash, commingled recyclables, paper, compostable (which wants a container with a cover that seals tightly) -- but the idea of having even some of these combined into a single footprint is interesting.
The fact that you have to reduce the size of each bucket to fit them into that space, on the other hand... Not so much.
Damn. As with most cool housewares featured on BB, only a concept. Somebody out there with manufacturing facilities could make a killing by using BB to find them product designs to buy and build.
This makes me Sad. I live in TEXAS, there are no Recycle centers anywhere near me. We compost, but hauling the glass/plastic to the closest center (one county away!) would greatly increase our carbon foot print. DON'T MESS WITH TEXAS! (George W. Bush, come home soon, we miss you and the other states called)
My hometown has single stream recycling and profits nicely from it.
I'm strongly reminded of a piano when I look at the three pedals there.
I suspect that's deliberate so I'm going to go out on a limb and say that the designer is either -really- into piano pedals on everything or plays another instrument.
I picked up one of these a few months ago. It's taller than my previous trashcan, but the footprint is about the same. We have commingled recycling where I live, rather than glass/paper/plastic or some other separation, and I use two of the bins for recyclables and one for trash. I'm very pleased with it.
a really nice idea.
needs a little refinement as has been stated by others previously, but a nice idea.
Only problem is that there is no domestic market in any western nation for recyclables.
so they are bought by China and sold back to us thus making a total mockery of the idea of recycling.
Each country needs to have an internal recycling market. Packaging 100% recycled in your country, which creates a market domestically for the material, so it will be collected for free by companies who sell it on to packaging recycling and production.
Legislation is the only way to give this stuff a value.
The "market" would ship it to Mars and back if they could make a penny.