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These are the most stylish kitchen bins to dispose of your food waste
Selecting the best kitchen bin for you isn’t as easy as you might think. When it comes to style, it may be important for you that it slots neatly into your kitchen. It’s also important to think about size, shape and where you’ll store it. Similarly, it pays to consider whether the design of the bin suits how you sort your waste at home.
The design of kitchen bins has evolved to meet the growing need for eco-friendly sorting. Alongside single-compartment bins, which are still great for collecting specific types of waste, we now have multi-compartment or interlocking bins for separating things out. These provide neat ways to organise waste in a logical, uniform system. Even in a lively kitchen, it’s good to have your waste tidy.
Some kitchen bins are now meeting the demand for reduced physical contact with sensor- or voice-activated lids. Of course, there are still plenty of bins that use the classic opening methods we’re all familiar with: push flaps, pedals and touch-operated mechanisms. You’ll open your bin often, so choose an opening method that suits you.
The kitchen bins featured in this review were tested in our reviewer’s kitchen over several days. The bins were used in everyday ways: for collecting waste (and recycling where relevant), and being opened, closed, cleaned, emptied and fitted with bin bags. Sometimes, we used the bins while cooking, to test their suitability for busier moments. We were looking for ease of use, style and efficient storage.
Combining sleek, contemporary style with a fantastically user-friendly, sensor-activated lid, the Eko deluxe phantom is our very favourite kitchen bin. Sure, it’s an investment, but this bin could make it easier to sort your waste and recycling for many years to come.
For more home favourites, read our round-up of the best juicers for squeezing in your five a day