New Kitchen. Built-in rubbish bin or stand alone?

[Deleted User]

I am having a small-ish bespoke kitchen built and still cannot get used to the idea of having an in-drawer/pull-out rubbish bin.

Do you have one?

Do you like it, or do you prefer a separate bin in the corner?

I could also, due to the height of my kitchen  under-counter cupboard shelves, remove a shelf and fit a bin inside.

Thank you.

DullGreyGuy

Personally like big bins (other than food waste) as its a pain taking the bags to the communial bin store. If you have full height cupboards and so can fit a 2x32L setup in it then its ok, though dislike the gap at the top what feels a waste of space, but if you have a draw above and so can only fit mini-bins they'd require emptying too much for my tastes.

If it was a large kitchen and space isnt an issue I'd have the large built in ones as it looks better and the space isnt needed. If its a medium-small kitchen then freestanding bin rather than sacrifice a whole cupboard

Rdwill

I have a built in bin drawer and much prefer it.

We used to have a plastic bag hung on a door handle for the black bin stuff, a croc pot on the counter for food and a wicker basket under a chair for recycling.

My only regret is that I only made the bin cupboard 400mm wide, and SWMBO insists that all 3 waste products go in the drawer, and the only thing that I can find that satisfies that criteria is this

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/174262950052?var=473265880107

Which is a bit flimsy on the runners considering the amount of use it gets, I'm already on my second one.

If only I'd have gone an extra 100mm on the width then my world would have opened up for 3 compartment bin drawers, and I could have got something with decent blum runners.  

My worst 'mistake' when designing the kitchen, 100mm of bin cupboard space   

hollie.weimeraner

Depends where you would stand your bin and if you have enough cupboard space to manage losing some for a bin.  We have had both and moved last year and now have this https://www.johnlewis.com/brabantia-bo-touch-bin-11l-23l/matt-steel/p3296325 which is the best bin we've ever had. We found the cupboard bin difficult to keep clean.

maisie_cat

When we bought the kitchen in our last house we included a 4 bin cabinet and never looked back.
When we moved here we had a stand alone 3 bin plus food waste.
It drove me nuts because it looked so untidy.
When I made new cabinets, the first one I designed was a bin cabinet. It has 2 food waste + 3 waste bins and I love it.

ColdPensioner

Smallest bin as possible under the sink, using bread wrappers as bags.

Only a tiny proportion of rubbish is not recyclable.

DullGreyGuy

ColdPensioner said:

Smallest bin as possible under the sink, using bread wrappers as bags.

Only a tiny proportion of rubbish is not recyclable.

1) So where is your recycling going? Seems a half answer

2) Whats recyclable depends on your local council unfortunately... ours wont take soft plastics or polystyrene and so lots of films and packaging has to go in the non-recycling bin.

That said, in the ideal world the large bin wouldnt be split 50/50 because recycling is much more (and more voluminous - need to get a can crusher) 

[Deleted User]

I put my recyclable waste immediately in my composter and in the waste wheely bin in my garden shed.

DougMLancs

DullGreyGuy said:

2) Whats recyclable depends on your local council unfortunately... ours wont take soft plastics or polystyrene and so lots of films and packaging has to go in the non-recycling bin.

It’s not all dependent on councils, we store up all our soft plastic and then drop off at Co-Op. yes it takes more effort than if the council would take it but it just forms part of the routine now

DullGreyGuy

said:

I put my recyclable waste immediately in my composter and in the waste wheely bin in my garden shed.

So if you finish a bottle of wine and immediately walk it to the garden shed why not do the same with the non-recycling (eg it's cork) rather than having a bin taking up kitchen space?

DougMLancs said:

DullGreyGuy said:

2) Whats recyclable depends on your local council unfortunately... ours wont take soft plastics or polystyrene and so lots of films and packaging has to go in the non-recycling bin.

It’s not all dependent on councils, we store up all our soft plastic and then drop off at Co-Op. yes it takes more effort than if the council would take it but it just forms part of the routine now

That also depends on where your nearest co-op is and doesnt provide a solution to polystyrene 

Emmia

We have a separate bin, the kitchen is tiny (we have 1 drawer, one double cupboard under the sink, and 1 other cupboard (+ wall cupboards) and so there is no room for a built in one - the spot is also pretty shallow (but wide) so we ended up with a semi circular brabantia bin.