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Our city requires households to recycle which is fine and all, but one of my biggest pet peeves is clutter of any kind especially on my kitchen counters. Most days I would try to remember to grab the bag of recycling on my way to the garage so I could toss it in the bin on my way to work, but sometimes I would forget. I used to get so annoyed seeing the bag of recycling sitting on the floor with more recycling sitting on my counter. A few weeks ago my best friend and I went to Lowes, while I was there I wanted to price out some material to build my own pull out recycling box. My idea was to use one of the lower kitchen cabinets and build a box that I could put on tracks to contain the recycling that would easily pull out. When I saw this Rev A Shelf trash barrel kit on sale for $19.00 I couldn’t pass it up, Amazon has this same kit priced at $47.00 Rev-A-Shelf RV-9PB 30 Qt Pull-Out Waste Container, White
. The $19.00 I paid was far cheaper then it would have cost me to build my own pull out system. So I bought it! As soon as I got home I installed it. It took me less than 5 minutes from box to being fulling installed. I swear this has been one of the best purchases I have ever made, I am no longer aggravated seeing recycling on the floor and counter! This is such an easy recycling organization project!
Here is how my recycling used to look
Recycling Organization
After: Recycling Roll Out
I can fit about 4 to 5 bags of recycling in the white trash can that came in the kit. I only have to empty this once a week now instead of bringing bags of recycling down to the garage daily or every other day!
The contents of that cabinet were moved to the refrigerator surround that I built last year. So I didn’t lose any storage space by putting my recycling in that base cabinet.
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