Thread: Need kitchen trash can recs

"spamtrap1888" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Do I really need to spend over a hundred dollars for a step-on trash
> can for the kitchen?
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> We bought a lovely forest green enameled steel Made in Canada step-on
> can from Williams-Sonoma over 15 years ago, but it is finally coming
> apart. (Back when Williams-Sonoma carried fairly priced everyday items
> along with the top-dollar stuff.)
>
> The company -- KCO Metal of Quebec -- is either defunct or out of the
> housewares business (they also made step stools, bread boxes, etc.)
>
> If I had to pay top dollar, I'd look at the combo trash/recycling
> cans. Right now we hang a grocery bag from the doorknob, to hold wine
> bottles, yogurt cups, tomato cans, etc. What do people do for their
> recyclables?

I can't recommend a trash can. The one I have is kind of suckish but it is
the right size for my small kitchen.

For recyclables (ours don't have to be sorted), I have a tall recycle bin
that is thin. It is the same kind used in many hospitals. I got it online.

On Mar 22, 3:57*pm, Brooklyn1 <Gravesend1> wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Mar 2012 11:17:34 -0700 (PDT), spamtrap1888
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> <spamtrap1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >Do I really need to spend over a hundred dollars for a step-on trash
> >can for the kitchen?
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> >We bought a lovely forest green enameled steel Made in Canada step-on
> >can from Williams-Sonoma over 15 years ago, but it is finally coming
> >apart. (Back when Williams-Sonoma carried fairly priced everyday items
> >along with the top-dollar stuff.)
>
> >The company -- KCO Metal of Quebec -- is either defunct or out of the
> >housewares business (they also made step stools, bread boxes, etc.)
>
> >If I had to pay top dollar, I'd look at the combo trash/recycling
> >cans. Right now we hang a grocery bag from the doorknob, to hold wine
> >bottles, yogurt cups, tomato cans, etc. What do people do for their
> >recyclables?
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> I gave up on trash cans years ago, they smell and I tired of scrubbing
> them. *I have two cup hooks high up (where my cats can't reach) at the
> door from my kitchen to my garage where I hang plastic bags, one for
> recyclables, one for paper scraps... the trash cans are in my garage a
> few steps on the other side of that door, where I dump the bags as
> needed. *I don't generate a lot of trash. *I have a compost pail by my
> sink for food scraps, and many food scraps get tossed into my back
> yard for the critters to dispose of. *For deposit bottles/cans I use a
> large leaf bag in my garage (in fact it's time to redeem). *I wouldn't
> consider a step-on trash can in my kitchen, it's enough I have
> wastepaper baskets in my bathrooms and office... not to mention three
> super size cat litter pans.


What do you do with dirty litter? Mine ultimately goes out with the
regular 'trash' which in my house consists of food scraps. I know
there is supposed to be flushable litter, but I would never dare. I'm
on city sewers, but still.....

What about bones?

On Mar 22, 3:59*pm, James Silverton <jim.silver...@verizon.net> wrote:
> On 3/22/2012 3:51 PM, Kalmia wrote:
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> > On Mar 22, 2:17 pm, spamtrap1888<spamtrap1...@gmail.com> *wrote:
> > You could hang that bag from a nail inside the sink cupboard door, for
> > aesthetic purposes. *I've seen holder for those too - a little wire
> > affair for small trash bags.
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> I have a reasonable sense of smell so I don't want too large a container
> for trash but, even then it must have a lid so I don't have to see the
> contents. A foot pedal reduces the marks from dirty hands.
>
> --
> Jim Silverton (Potomac, MD)
>
> Extraneous "not" in Reply To.

The cat litter pail takes an 8 gallon trash bag. The lid I can flip
up in a trice. The problem is fruit flies - so I have to use those
separate little bags - like just now, I prepped dindin and into a
small bag wens shrimp shells, asparagus bottoms, some onion and garlic
scraps, and a tomato core.

On 3/22/12 2:17 PM, spamtrap1888 wrote:

> If I had to pay top dollar, I'd look at the combo trash/recycling
> cans. Right now we hang a grocery bag from the doorknob, to hold wine
> bottles, yogurt cups, tomato cans, etc. What do people do for their
> recyclables?

I walk my recyclables from my kitchen, through the mudroom to the door
to the garage. In the garage next to the door are two tall round buckets
(the kind birdseed or industrial stuff comes in) and I toss them in
there. I don't even have to enter the garage, just toss from the open
door. My trash recycling company doesn't' require me to separate the
items, but I tend to anyway. Paper in one, plastics and aluminum in the
other. Sadly they don't pick up glass.

spamtrap1888 wrote:

> If I had to pay top dollar, I'd look at the combo trash/recycling
> cans. Right now we hang a grocery bag from the doorknob, to hold wine
> bottles, yogurt cups, tomato cans, etc. What do people do for their
> recyclables?

Here we received plastificated (sp?) fabric bags from the Townhall: white
for plastics, green for bottles and cans and blue for paper, we divide trash
into these three bags and the rest goes in the "generic" bag, then when we
get out we bring these bags to their same-colour bins, with the generic
being metal-grey. Some areas also give you a small brown trash can for
"organic" trash such as that from cleaning vegetables, meats, cheeses and
such, and in the streets there's also the brown bin for this trash.

On Mar 22, 2:30*pm, "Pico Rico" <PicoR...@nonospam.com> wrote:
> "Nancy Young" <replyto@inemail> wrote in message
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> news:4f6b7999$0$26870$[email protected]..
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> > On 3/22/2012 2:17 PM, spamtrap1888 wrote:
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> >> Do I really need to spend over a hundred dollars for a step-on trash
> >> can for the kitchen?
>
> a 5 gallon bucket can probably be had for free, and you can step on the
> trash to make room for more.

New 5-gallon buckets aren't free anywhere around here - usually around
a buck 2.98.

N.

On 24/03/2012 1:37 AM, Nancy2 wrote:
> On Mar 22, 2:30 pm, "Pico Rico"<PicoR...@nonospam.com> wrote:
>> "Nancy Young"<replyto@inemail> wrote in message
>>
>> news:4f6b7999$0$26870$[email protected]..
>>
>>> On 3/22/2012 2:17 PM, spamtrap1888 wrote:
>>
>>>> Do I really need to spend over a hundred dollars for a step-on trash
>>>> can for the kitchen?
>>
>> a 5 gallon bucket can probably be had for free, and you can step on the
>> trash to make room for more.
>
> New 5-gallon buckets aren't free anywhere around here - usually around
> a buck 2.98.
>
> N.

If you have a bakery near you, check them out for free buckets. The
icing confection and other similar substances they use in bulk come in 4
or 5 gallon buckets with snap on lids. The one near us, part of a
supermarket, tosses them out in the rubbish. What a waste of perfectly
good buckets! The daughter of a friend used to work in the bakery as a
part time job and snagged us a heap of buckets. The UV resistance isn't
too hot but if you keep them out of the sun they will last for years.
They are a lot more solid than the cheap rubbish you pay good money for
at hardware stores nowadays.

--

Krypsis

On Sat, 24 Mar 2012 01:47:18 +1100, Krypsis <[email protected]>
wrote:

>On 24/03/2012 1:37 AM, Nancy2 wrote:
>> On Mar 22, 2:30 pm, "Pico Rico"<PicoR...@nonospam.com> wrote:
>>> "Nancy Young"<replyto@inemail> wrote in message
>>>
>>> news:4f6b7999$0$26870$[email protected]..
>>>
>>>> On 3/22/2012 2:17 PM, spamtrap1888 wrote:
>>>
>>>>> Do I really need to spend over a hundred dollars for a step-on trash
>>>>> can for the kitchen?
>>>
>>> a 5 gallon bucket can probably be had for free, and you can step on the
>>> trash to make room for more.
>>
>> New 5-gallon buckets aren't free anywhere around here - usually around
>> a buck 2.98.
>>
>> N.
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>If you have a bakery near you, check them out for free buckets. The
>icing confection and other similar substances they use in bulk come in 4
>or 5 gallon buckets with snap on lids. The one near us, part of a
>supermarket, tosses them out in the rubbish. What a waste of perfectly
>good buckets! The daughter of a friend used to work in the bakery as a
>part time job and snagged us a heap of buckets. The UV resistance isn't
>too hot but if you keep them out of the sun they will last for years.
>They are a lot more solid than the cheap rubbish you pay good money for
>at hardware stores nowadays.

Home Depot and Lowe's sell very nice contractor buckets in designer
colors for less than $3. I get all the buckets I want whenever I buy
cat litter; rectangular with lids and strong.

On 3/23/2012 10:47 AM, Krypsis wrote:
> On 24/03/2012 1:37 AM, Nancy2 wrote:

>> New 5-gallon buckets aren't free anywhere around here - usually around
>> a buck 2.98.

> If you have a bakery near you, check them out for free buckets. The
> icing confection and other similar substances they use in bulk come in 4
> or 5 gallon buckets with snap on lids. The one near us, part of a
> supermarket, tosses them out in the rubbish. What a waste of perfectly
> good buckets! The daughter of a friend used to work in the bakery as a
> part time job and snagged us a heap of buckets. The UV resistance isn't
> too hot but if you keep them out of the sun they will last for years.
> They are a lot more solid than the cheap rubbish you pay good money for
> at hardware stores nowadays.

Or ask someone who has a pool, I wind up with a few every year.

nancy

On Thu, 22 Mar 2012 11:17:34 -0700 (PDT), spamtrap1888
<[email protected]> wrote:

> Do I really need to spend over a hundred dollars for a step-on trash
> can for the kitchen?
>
No
>
> If I had to pay top dollar, I'd look at the combo trash/recycling
> cans. Right now we hang a grocery bag from the doorknob, to hold wine
> bottles, yogurt cups, tomato cans, etc. What do people do for their
> recyclables?

My city recycles and they give us an inside bin and an outside bin
(actually several for various types of recycling). We can just throw
all the "inside" recyclables into the "blue bin" and they sort them
out at the recycling center.

--
Food is an important part of a balanced diet.

In article <d69ee036-a10c-4f33-b56b-
[email protected]>, [email protected] says...
>
> On Mar 22, 2:30*pm, "Pico Rico" <PicoR...@nonospam.com> wrote:
> > "Nancy Young" <replyto@inemail> wrote in message
> >
> > news:4f6b7999$0$26870$[email protected]..
> >
> > > On 3/22/2012 2:17 PM, spamtrap1888 wrote:
> >
> > >> Do I really need to spend over a hundred dollars for a step-on trash
> > >> can for the kitchen?
> >
> > a 5 gallon bucket can probably be had for free, and you can step on the
> > trash to make room for more.
>
> New 5-gallon buckets aren't free anywhere around here - usually around
> a buck 2.98.

They're free if you buy something that comes in a five gallon bucket.
Bird food, soap powder, garden fertiliser....

Janet

On Mar 23, 4:18*am, "ViLco" <villi...@tin.it> wrote:
> spamtrap1888 wrote:
> > If I had to pay top dollar, I'd look at the combo trash/recycling
> > cans. Right now we hang a grocery bag from the doorknob, to hold wine
> > bottles, yogurt cups, tomato cans, etc. What do people do for their
> > recyclables?
>
> Here we received plastificated (sp?) fabric bags from the Townhall: white
> for plastics, green for bottles and cans and blue for paper, we divide trash
> into these three bags and the rest goes in the "generic" bag, then when we
> get out we bring these bags to their same-colour bins, with the generic
> being metal-grey. Some areas also give you a small brown trash can for
> "organic" trash such as that from cleaning vegetables, meats, cheeses and
> such, and in the streets there's also the brown bin for this trash.

How do you store these bags for use in your kitchen? Don't they take
up a lot of room?

On Fri, 23 Mar 2012 18:06:50 -0000, Janet <[email protected]> wrote:

>In article <d69ee036-a10c-4f33-b56b-
>[email protected]>, [email protected] says...
>>
>> On Mar 22, 2:30*pm, "Pico Rico" <PicoR...@nonospam.com> wrote:
>> > "Nancy Young" <replyto@inemail> wrote in message
>> >
>> > news:4f6b7999$0$26870$[email protected]..
>> >
>> > > On 3/22/2012 2:17 PM, spamtrap1888 wrote:
>> >
>> > >> Do I really need to spend over a hundred dollars for a step-on trash
>> > >> can for the kitchen?
>> >
>> > a 5 gallon bucket can probably be had for free, and you can step on the
>> > trash to make room for more.
>>
>> New 5-gallon buckets aren't free anywhere around here - usually around
>> a buck 2.98.
>
> They're free if you buy something that comes in a five gallon bucket.
> Bird food, soap powder, garden fertiliser....

And paint.

Lou

On Fri, 23 Mar 2012 18:06:50 -0000, Janet <[email protected]> wrote:

>In article <d69ee036-a10c-4f33-b56b-
>[email protected]>, [email protected] says...
>>
>> On Mar 22, 2:30*pm, "Pico Rico" <PicoR...@nonospam.com> wrote:
>> > "Nancy Young" <replyto@inemail> wrote in message
>> >
>> > news:4f6b7999$0$26870$[email protected]..
>> >
>> > > On 3/22/2012 2:17 PM, spamtrap1888 wrote:
>> >
>> > >> Do I really need to spend over a hundred dollars for a step-on trash
>> > >> can for the kitchen?
>> >
>> > a 5 gallon bucket can probably be had for free, and you can step on the
>> > trash to make room for more.
>>
>> New 5-gallon buckets aren't free anywhere around here - usually around
>> a buck 2.98.
>
> They're free if you buy something that comes in a five gallon bucket.
> Bird food, soap powder, garden fertiliser....

I buy cat litter in buckets... can also buy various buckets for cheap
at Lowe's, I like these:
http://tinyurl.com/7vlbu8u
http://www.lowes.com/pd_374517-1152-...7C1&facetInfo=

spamtrap1888 wrote:

>> Here we received plastificated (sp?) fabric bags from the Townhall:
>> white for plastics, green for bottles and cans and blue for paper,

> How do you store these bags for use in your kitchen? Don't they take
> up a lot of room?

Yes they do take a lot of spaces, each bag occupies about 2 square feet of
floor. I have put mine under a table so they don't get in my way while I'm
in the kitchen.

On 3/22/2012 2:17 PM, spamtrap1888 wrote:

> Do I really need to spend over a hundred dollars for a step-on trash
> can for the kitchen?
>
> We bought a lovely forest green enameled steel Made in Canada step-on
> can from Williams-Sonoma over 15 years ago, but it is finally coming
> apart. (Back when Williams-Sonoma carried fairly priced everyday items
> along with the top-dollar stuff.)
>
> The company -- KCO Metal of Quebec -- is either defunct or out of the
> housewares business (they also made step stools, bread boxes, etc.)
>
> If I had to pay top dollar, I'd look at the combo trash/recycling
> cans. Right now we hang a grocery bag from the doorknob, to hold wine
> bottles, yogurt cups, tomato cans, etc. What do people do for their
> recyclables?

For recyclables I use a 5 gal plastic pail and empty it daily. Gets all
my cat food and other cans, cardboard boxes, plastic bottles and
occasional glass bottles.

For trash I have a tall trashcan with a motion sensor lid. No stepping
needed. Not particularly expensive either.

dh and i discussed this the first night he was home, he either needs a foot
opener or a motion sensor, any reccomendations welcome. Lee
"spamtrap1888" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Do I really need to spend over a hundred dollars for a step-on trash
> can for the kitchen?
>
> We bought a lovely forest green enameled steel Made in Canada step-on
> can from Williams-Sonoma over 15 years ago, but it is finally coming
> apart. (Back when Williams-Sonoma carried fairly priced everyday items
> along with the top-dollar stuff.)
>
> The company -- KCO Metal of Quebec -- is either defunct or out of the
> housewares business (they also made step stools, bread boxes, etc.)
>
> If I had to pay top dollar, I'd look at the combo trash/recycling
> cans. Right now we hang a grocery bag from the doorknob, to hold wine
> bottles, yogurt cups, tomato cans, etc. What do people do for their
> recyclables?

please talk more about the motion sensor can, i solved the litter issue by
going to the breeze litter system, Lee
"Kalmia" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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On Mar 22, 3:57 pm, Brooklyn1 <Gravesend1> wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Mar 2012 11:17:34 -0700 (PDT), spamtrap1888
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> <spamtrap1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >Do I really need to spend over a hundred dollars for a step-on trash
> >can for the kitchen?
>
> >We bought a lovely forest green enameled steel Made in Canada step-on
> >can from Williams-Sonoma over 15 years ago, but it is finally coming
> >apart. (Back when Williams-Sonoma carried fairly priced everyday items
> >along with the top-dollar stuff.)
>
> >The company -- KCO Metal of Quebec -- is either defunct or out of the
> >housewares business (they also made step stools, bread boxes, etc.)
>
> >If I had to pay top dollar, I'd look at the combo trash/recycling
> >cans. Right now we hang a grocery bag from the doorknob, to hold wine
> >bottles, yogurt cups, tomato cans, etc. What do people do for their
> >recyclables?
>
> I gave up on trash cans years ago, they smell and I tired of scrubbing
> them. I have two cup hooks high up (where my cats can't reach) at the
> door from my kitchen to my garage where I hang plastic bags, one for
> recyclables, one for paper scraps... the trash cans are in my garage a
> few steps on the other side of that door, where I dump the bags as
> needed. I don't generate a lot of trash. I have a compost pail by my
> sink for food scraps, and many food scraps get tossed into my back
> yard for the critters to dispose of. For deposit bottles/cans I use a
> large leaf bag in my garage (in fact it's time to redeem). I wouldn't
> consider a step-on trash can in my kitchen, it's enough I have
> wastepaper baskets in my bathrooms and office... not to mention three
> super size cat litter pans.


What do you do with dirty litter? Mine ultimately goes out with the
regular 'trash' which in my house consists of food scraps. I know
there is supposed to be flushable litter, but I would never dare. I'm
on city sewers, but still.....

What about bones?

On Apr 30, 11:59*am, "Storrmmee" <rgr...@consolidated.net> wrote:


Lee,
You have directed this question to the wrong person. I know nada
about motion sensor trash cans.....