Clever Recycle
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HAVE YOU EVER THOUGHT ABOUT THE RECYCLING BINS OUT IN PUBLIC OR AT YOUR HOME ? HAVE YOU WONDERED IF THERE MIGHT BE A BETTER WAY . . .
This Clever Recycle website offers attractive solutions and better options to public and home based recycling containers than old style recycle bins . . .
While researching recycling bins, the most common complaint that was heard from State and County park systems is that there is too much trash placed into their old style recycle bins.
Trash in recycle bins is called contamination. Contamination rates are typically 20-50 percent. Anything over 15% and the batch goes to the landfill. Clever Recycle bins have contamination rates between 1 and 3 percent.
Clever Recycle bins have an opening of about 5 inches at the top. This is enough room for beverage containers to be deposited, but not bags of fast food garbage, or most other large trash.
Some of the drawbacks of the old style bins are that they look like garbage cans, get contaminated by trash and are often enclosed and not able to breath. They also are often too low and easy for children to use incorrectly. Clever Recycle has tackled these insufficiencies and come up with attractive solutions.
Tennis Racket Shapped Recycle Bin
CLEVER THINKING
Clever Recycle has developed innovative ways to improve the function of recycle bins and reduce contamintion. We said, why not construct a recycle bin with a small opening at the top, place the opening higher than a regular bin, and make it see through and breathable. We also designed it to be visually appealing and look like what goes inside, an attractive bottle. All of these design elements and more have a purpose.
Bottle Bin
Clever Recycle Bins also have features not commonly found in other recycling bins. One of those features is a bottom or side quick "dumping door" to empty the bins. Another feature is a "deflector", to reduce the chance of two glass bottles hitting each other and breaking when they are deposited.
FROM THE BEGINNING
Would you like to hear how Clever Recycle Rec Bins came about . . .
After seeing bottles and cans in the trash while walking his dog at the parks near his home in Fort Pierce, Florida, Captain Tim Simos had had enough and decided to do something about it.
He contacted the St. Lucie County Parks Department and spoke to the park system's Director, Josh. Capt. Tim said to Josh, "I have never made a recycling bin before, but I want to design one that looks like a bottle". The director, without hesitation, said OK.
Knowing what material he wanted the "bottle bins" to be made of, Capt. Tim contacted a local crab trap maker to construct the first one. Having a concept in mind, Capt. Tim emailed instructions and a photo to Rob at Rob's Reel Baits to give it a try.
After four hours of work, Rob's results came out looking more like the Eiffel Tower than a bottle. So, Rob gladly invited Capt. Tim over to his shop to give it a try.
While Capt. Tim's first attempt at a "bottle bin" was functional, it was not a work of art, yet. It took some clever thinking, and a few more prototypes before Capt. Tim found a design formula for constructing a usable and attractive recycle bin, the RB-1.
Coming up with this concept is not a surprise because Captain Tim has always had an interest in preserving nature. Nature and the outdoors had given him so much growing up that he decided to attend Stockton University and received an Environmental Science degree. While always being interested in recycling, he feels that it's time to take recycling to a higher level and give something back to help the Earth on a larger scale.
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