In-cabinet Plastic Bag Recycling Center + Trash Can

Lindsay ~ 7 December 2006

Whether you ask for plastic or paper bags when you’re at the grocery store, you probably end up with a lot more than you need after you’ve gotten home and put all the food away. Some people can find a use for them and prefer to keep them around the house. My mom recycles the plastic bags for, ah, collections when she’s on dog-walking duty. If that sounds familiar, you may have a drawer in the kitchen devoted to holding them (the bags, not the collections). Of course, this is a waste of a perfectly good drawer that could be holding measuring cups, gadgets, and the paraphernalia one expects to find in the kitchen. And if you bring home more baggies than you use, then they could even overflow into other drawers and nooks.

This cabinet-mounted trash system is a way to wrangle those bags you want to re-use into tidy submission. It fastens to the inside of a door and can be tucked under the sink. On the bottom is a holder that works a bit like a tissue box (stuff the bags in and then withdraw them one at a time through the hole). On top of that is a bracket for holding a trash bag, so you can keep your garbage out of plain sight.

The trash bag recycling system is available online for $30: Cabinet Mount Trash Center