Brabantia Recycling Bin - £91!

fesdufun

I have been looking for a new bin and have seen this one by Brabantia -

http://www.johnlewis.com/Shopping/Product.aspx?Type=SKU&Id=230167217

Even using the £20 off code it will still cost £71. Does anyone have one of these and would you recommend it?

Also has anyone seen any alternatives? The only ones I have seen that have more than one section inside the bin are huge.

My kitchen is very small and I liked the idea of combining the compost bin with the housewaste bin.

Thanks

Marsh_Samphire

I got a bin with 3 sections in from this site, they have lots of shapes and sizes

https://www.homerecycling.co.uk

Delivery was fast and they answered an email query straight away.

*flutterby*

I have a Brabantia bin, mine is the same one you're looking at but not the recycling one...

The only thing I will say is they don't yet do the bags for this size! Brabantia recommend you buy the 40L ones but this is a huge waste, you're better off buying other brand bags from the supermarket etc... They are also difficult to keep 'spotless' steel is prone to show every water-mark, finger-mark etc... Microfibre cloths are the best for cleaning them

I've never had any problems with mine but thats not too surprising really, it's a expensive and glorified bucket!...

However, Brabantia do have a lifetime guarantee, I believe they are excellent if you do have any problems... If you look under 5 star service forum on this site tons of people say they are fab!

Hope this has helped you but please let me know if I can help anymore!

Mrs_Thrify

£91.00 FOR A BIN...EVEN REDUCED TO £71.00 What a lot of money!
My kitchen is also on the small size, but I have 2 swing bins for my large family. A green one in the kitchen for general waste and a blue one in the dinning room next door for paper, plastic bottles and tins. Theese match the colour of the bins outside used for collection.Glass bottles get taken to one of the many bottle banks every week and I don't composs food because of the rats issue. Can you not put waste food on a bird table?
I am shocked at the amount-just for a bin:eek:

fesdufun

julie_d wrote:

£91.00 FOR A BIN...EVEN REDUCED TO £71.00 What a lot of money!
My kitchen is also on the small size, but I have 2 swing bins for my large family. A green one in the kitchen for general waste and a blue one in the dinning room next door for paper, plastic bottles and tins. Theese match the colour of the bins outside used for collection.Glass bottles get taken to one of the many bottle banks every week and I don't composs food because of the rats issue. Can you not put waste food on a bird table?
I am shocked at the amount-just for a bin:eek:

We already have a small compost caddy. I live by the seaside so there is no way I could put any waste food out. We have a seagull problem so this is a big no, no. Anyway we put any meat based compost in the brown bin that the council collects one a week and put anything that is suitable in the garden compost bin. I also have a green box for tins, glass, paper and plastic which lives on top of the washing machine. Then there is the general waste bin for anything that can't go in any of the other bins. I was just hoping to streamline things a bit. But I agreed £71 is expensive for the bin.