Which restaurant trash can for your kitchen and your customers?
Do you want to completely review your restaurant's waste collection and flow? For over 45 years, Voussert has been offering a wide range of bins for your kitchen and dining room customers, allowing you to sort waste in your restaurant.
Indeed, with the appearance several years ago of the Haccp approach and more recently of the Agec Law , the collection of waste in a restaurant, bar or café must meet several constraints.
First, in your kitchen and food preparation area, with the implementation of HACCP protocols and selective sorting, including the collection of organic waste. But now, especially for fast food restaurants, you'll also need bins for your customers in the dining room and separate food packaging flows, such as food.
What size kitchen bin should you use for your restaurant?
Choose the size based on the amount of waste generated in your kitchen. The number of place settings per service characterizes the waste flow you will generate. The most common size is between 90 and 110 liters . However, smaller sizes such as 30 liters or 45 liters are available to fit under stainless steel work tables or kitchen furniture . The available sizes are 30 liters, 45 liters, 70 liters, 90 liters and 110 liters. Remember that a larger size will require more effort to remove the bag once full. Indeed, in the kitchen world, the weight volume ratio is important compared to an office activity for example.
In general, food waste is heavy waste . You will therefore need to use thick and strong garbage bags to prevent them from being punctured when removing the bag and any liquid from leaking. Also, choose traditional BD PE (low density) bags for better puncture resistance.
What design of kitchen trash can in a restaurant?
It can be streamlined or designed solely as a " kitchen bag holder " or a " kitchen bin with flap " model. In the case of a streamlined model, the bag will be invisible and protected by a stainless steel, painted steel or plastic fairing.
The advantage of a streamlined bin is that it makes the bin bag invisible and "contains" the bag between the walls. The walls also prevent users from clinging to the bin bag, which would otherwise remain visible. This choice provides physical and visual protection for the bin bag. The best-known streamlined version is the "Collecroule" model from Rossignol , which is available in white epoxy or stainless steel painted versions in two different capacities: 70L and 110L.
Kitchen bin material: plastic or stainless steel
When choosing a kitchen bin, the choice of material has a direct impact on its maintenance, its lifespan and its purchase price.
Stainless steel models are often the best quality for use in professional kitchens, as they are durable and easy to maintain provided you have a suitable professional food-grade stainless steel cleaner . Stainless steel remains the reference material in the kitchen . However, the price of stainless steel often leads to the much less expensive plastic alternative.
Choosing plastic is not a default choice over stainless steel because it also has other advantages. Plastic will be less prone to shocks that would mark stainless steel or metal, will be lighter to move and will remain easy to maintain .
Maintenance remains easy if the plastic quality is sufficient. The possibility of varying the colors through changing the colors of the lids or the entire bin, thus ensuring selective sorting in the kitchen.
Trash Can Features for Your Restaurant
Some bins may be equipped with pedal lids or locking mechanisms for easy and hygienic access. A pedal is almost mandatory to prevent the worker from coming into contact with the bin. The mechanism is often a linkage system, and it's important to choose a reliable system. The lid can be color-coded to allow for selective waste sorting. Food waste sorting in restaurants has become mandatory under the Agec law.
For customers in fast-food restaurants where they have to clear their own trays and waste, and possibly pre-sort their waste, it is essential to offer suitable solutions such as the Resotri range from Rossignol. The Restotri sorting and clearing unit is designed to facilitate waste sorting in catering establishments. Combining practicality and robustness, it optimizes the organization of sorting spaces while offering an ergonomic solution for staff and users. Thanks to its design in anti-corrosion treated and anti-UV powder coated steel, as well as its light oak effect compact HPL top, it combines durability and aesthetics.
Removing waste from the bin
Determine how the waste will be disposed of and choose a bin that fits into your existing waste treatment systems. Implementing HACCP procedures to determine a disposal route is also a key factor, as it will determine the number and type of bins. You'll also need to ensure the proximity of suitable rolling bins. The bin's mobility can also be a factor if you plan to move it. In any case, the disposal route must not cross the clean product route to avoid contamination. It may therefore be necessary to position several collection points in different areas to avoid these "crossovers."
Manufacturers of bins and sorting furniture for collective catering
There are many offers on the market but if you want a national solution, Rossignol remains a reference . Of course, the entire plastic range is not manufactured in France and is subject to 'importation' and agreement with foreign manufacturers on this type of product, but on the entire metal range, manufacturing is carried out in France.
Thus the Alitri range, which is a range entirely dedicated to waste sorting in collective catering, offers a tailor-made combination with volumes of 65L / 90L and 110L and customizable flow rates.
As for plastic containers, they are mainly manufactured in Asia, Turkey, Spain or Morocco because there is no economic and technical alternative in France.
Rubbermaid also offers a range, but it is essentially based on plastic manufacturing, which is the core of the brand's expertise.
Prices: how to optimize your purchases?
Professional trash cans can be expensive, especially when it comes to high-quality materials like stainless steel. Plastic offers a real cost-effective alternative, as most are now made from recycled or recyclable materials. Furthermore, as we mentioned earlier, these products are mostly sourced from Asian factories, which, of course, have very low production costs.
So, whether it's for a trash can for your kitchen or preparation area, plastic is an economical choice. For sorting furniture intended for selective sorting in dining rooms for self-service restaurants and fast food restaurants, don't hesitate to look for solutions that are truly adapted to your premises.
Voussert supports its catering clients through offers of directly imported products as well as products manufactured and designed in France in order to meet your requirements.
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