I’m currently thinking about how to best organize the half kitchen island, especially how much space to allocate for waste bins...
How do you handle waste? What types of waste do you store in the kitchen? For example, do you keep paper recycling and glass there as well? Do you collect any of it in the utility room?
We only have the utility room besides the kitchen. We don’t have a basement or garage.
You don’t want to keep too much waste in the kitchen or dedicate too much space to it. I would like to have a base cabinet with a waste system for organic and general waste. Then I thought of having another waste system under the sink for yellow bag recycling, paper recycling, and glass. But I’m not sure if paper recycling really belongs in the kitchen. I don’t want to have just one large trash bin in the kitchen.
How do you handle waste? What types of waste do you store in the kitchen? For example, do you keep paper recycling and glass there as well? Do you collect any of it in the utility room?
We only have the utility room besides the kitchen. We don’t have a basement or garage.
You don’t want to keep too much waste in the kitchen or dedicate too much space to it. I would like to have a base cabinet with a waste system for organic and general waste. Then I thought of having another waste system under the sink for yellow bag recycling, paper recycling, and glass. But I’m not sure if paper recycling really belongs in the kitchen. I don’t want to have just one large trash bin in the kitchen.
untergasse43 schrieb:
Absolutely. Two-person household and a narrow cabinet, unfortunately a wider or deeper sorter wasn’t possible. Works perfectly! We do try to avoid plastic as much as possible, but not to an extreme extent like zero-waste stores or anything like that. So far, it fits well.Depending on the district, the yellow bag contains much more than just plastic packaging: tin cans, wooden boxes, shampoo bottles, polystyrene packaging, and so on.
untergasse434 Aug 2020 09:31Scout schrieb:
Depending on the district, the yellow bag often contains much more than just plastic packaging:
tin cans, wooden boxes, shampoo bottles, polystyrene packaging, and so on. So what? If it suddenly becomes obviously too much for the little bin, I just take it out right away. I simply don’t stuff a washing machine transport packaging into the 8 l (2 gallon) box. As I said, there wasn’t any more space anyway, and I don’t want to keep any waste in the utility room or pantry (except maybe glass for recycling). When the bag is full, I just take it with me on the way to the garage. Easy.
In the new build, we will get cabinets with widths around 100 cm (40 inches) or more, so it will be different then and I might use larger containers. For now, this is how it is and it works perfectly fine for two people.
hausnrplus254 Aug 2020 10:38opalau schrieb:
We have a 60 cm (24 inch) cabinet next to the sink. On top, there are three bins (Hailo Triple XL, 28 / 13 / 13 liters) for residual waste, yellow bag, and organic waste. Below that, the drawer is divided between glass recycling and paper recycling.Do you also have fixed bins underneath?
Are your bins hung or do they just stand inside the drawer?
Currently, in our apartment under the sink, we have two 17-liter (4.5 gallon) bins hanging on the door. However, the door often gets dirty and it’s almost impossible to properly clean the cabinet since the door and frame are in the way. At the moment, we use these only for residual waste.
For the new house, we plan to have a top drawer next to the sink, but with just 1 or 2 bins for residual waste.
As for organic waste, we’re still deciding whether it will continue to go into the residual waste as it does now in the apartment, or if we will get a separate organic waste bin or a composter.
The yellow bag (recycling for plastics, packaging) is kept in a standalone bin with a foot pedal and lid. The entire yellow bag fits inside. The bin has a stainless steel black finish that matches our appliances like the kettle and toaster, so it looks quite “stylish.” When it’s full, we take it to the carport room until pickup.
At present in the utility room, and later in the pantry, we have a tower made of three crates for deposit bottles, paper recycling, and glass recycling...
hausnrplus254 Aug 2020 10:40Shiny86 schrieb:
Sounds interesting. Hearing about this for the first time.What experiences do you have with this? We are also considering installing a push-to-open mechanism, but does it open wide enough, or do you still need to use your hand to open it? (The kitchen will have handles.)
We don't want to invest in electric options like foot sensors or similar devices because they tend to break, are expensive, can trigger accidentally, and are simply not practical for a drawer located at the top.
hausnrplus25 schrieb:
Do you also have solid buckets underneath?
Are your buckets hooked in or do they just sit in the drawer? Do you mean the drawer underneath for glass recycling and paper? No, paper goes into a cardboard box placed in the drawer, and glass bottles are simply stored next to it.
The buckets above are hooked in.
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