What Is The UK’s Best Kitchen Bin?
In this guide, we’ll take a look at the best kitchen bins. We’ve compared design, shape, opening mechanism and cost to give you our top recommendations.
Kitchen Bin Reviews
Kitchen Bin Buying Guide
Choosing a new bin is a time consuming process, deciding on a motion sensor, pedal or push button opening, slide or flip lids, metal or plastic, square or round, traditional or contemporary designs. The choices go on and on. To help make the decision easier, here are a few points worth remembering.
Design
Look for flat surfaces, easy to wipe materials and uncomplicated opening mechanisms. In a nutshell, you need to be able to clean this thing of the rubbish that gets tossed in it, and the more grooves and ridges it has, the harder it will be to clean.
Size & Capacity
Let’s be honest, your new bin needs to have a two-pronged game; to hold all the waste you want to dispose of, and it needs to fit the space available in your kitchen. So, before you commit to your choice, take one more minute to check its measurements; will it fit in the space, will it hold everything you need it to.
Opening Mechanism
Uncomplicated, easy to clean, and easy to access; look for bins that have a button or a pedal that’s easy to operate, that will wipe clean easily and that won’t break after being pressed a thousand times.
Ease of Cleaning
It’s important. We’ve mentioned it as part of the other considerations, but really, do you want to spend hours scraping or wiping to remove the crusty bits of waste that get stuck on the edges, on the sides or on the lid.
How to Clean Your Kitchen Bin
Most kitchen bins can be cleaned with hot soapy water, and wiped dry. Some metal bins will require specialist cleansers to maintain the metallic finish.