Great idea! But at $48 per frame, this could be a DIY instead.

i'd have to recycle a lot of cans to get to $48. cool design, but waaaaay out of my price range.

I can't tell you how timely this is. Our recycling 'system' is a bunch of tangled bags in the downstairs bathtub (the one we don't use, of course). I am still trying to figure out what can be recycled, what goes together, etc...but at least this would make it a lot less confusing to look at.

...wait, $48 for one? I thought it was for the three-bag rack. Now I see how it works. That is kinda pricey...but I'm curious, how would this be a DIY?

I took one look at that and thought DIY for sure. $48 is a joke.

(cute idea though!)

Doesn't this also assume you have a constant supply of perfectly sized, handled paper bags?

I was thisclose to buying this until I saw the $48 pricetag. When the price comes down I'll reconsider, until then I'm on the lookout for a DIY option.

my roommate and I use an old milk crate and set two open paper bags (saved grocery/Trader Joe's bags) in them, and toss the recycling in. of course, it's a bit easier since we don't need three bags -- L.A. has co-mingled recycling.

San Diego has mixed recycling too--very easy. The frames seem ingenious at first glance, until I remember that I can just stick my paper bag into an inexpensive plastic bin that will be sturdier and about 40 bucks cheaper.

Totally agree- cool, but expensive for what it is. I thought the EU was in a recession too! I'll stick to my current method, paper bag on the floor, for free.

Are you kidding me? $48 for EACH? You could buy three small garbage bins and set them side-by-side. Or small laundry baskets. Or some sturdy reusable grocery bags that could be washed out.

A problem with this system is that you would have to constantly have tons of paper bags on hand, which means you aren't using reusable bags, and probably don't care too much about recycling anyway.

I don't see how the assembled contraption looks all that different from three paper bags sitting on the floor. Recycling is such a drag.

I just bring my recyclables to the outdoor recycling bin each morning.

So two for $100 shipping from Europe...

Leaving the paper bags on the floor or under the sink doesn't look so bad after all...

I used to take a frame like this - bought at a camping and outdooring supplier for something like €3 - on holiday, to use outside our tent for waste and rubbish. We'd just hang ourempty plastic grocery bags over the tops, as shown above, and detach them to dispose of them.
$48 seems an outrageous price. Ours weren't red though. :-)

Yeah, they seem cool at first blush but that first image -- the one with the fancy, custom-size and -color bags, is the one that really looks great. Once you add the full size ordinary brown grocery bags, as in the third image, the look is not nearly as appealing, and once you realize that you need to spend $100 plus shipping to get that look, the appeal is all gone.

these are perfect for under the sink (as we have 3 right now: glass, co-mingled, and non-curbside items). the bags are always toppling into each other.

would totally do it if the price was for all 3.

I use the recycle shopping bags from Trader Joe's for less than a couple of bucks depeding on the size.

I have to co-sign with everyone on the price.

We use a folding shopping cart for our recycling lined with a trimmed vinyl placemat to keep things from falling through the bottom. We live on the complete opposite corner from the trash room so wheeling it down the hall is easier than lugging bags.

We don't have recycling pick-up, so I just toss everything together in a bin and sort it just before I take it to the recycling center. Pre-sorting, whether for recyclables or laundry, is lost on my husband.

I think the only advantage is that paper bags try to fall over when on their own.

To DIY - buy the round bar then find something ridged/strong with a hole in it.....not sure what everyone will find, but maybe the little handles on the dumpsters or even the "legs" that hold the dumpster legs. Maybe a major railing somewhere. Stick the metal in and bend, move to the next section and bend again. You'll need a pattern first of course. Start with excess rod because it will give you the leverage you need to bend it. Find a way to cut the excess off with a bolt cutter. Then paint.

No way that I'll be trading my paper box full of newspaper for this.

dang, just noticed my typo.

Rigid not ridged.

I use empty copy paper boxes to sort my recycling. Easy, provide plenty of room, reusable, and best of all FREE

wow, that's cool ideas.

Neat, but I agree with everyone on the price. And in a small kitchen I would prefer to stow as much away in hidden spots as possible rather than having it take up floor space. We use a "blue bin" which the city (of Toronto) provided to everyone as part of the recycling program years ago. You can also buy them at hardware stores for a few dollars. It fits in the cabinet under the sink beside our garbage can and we just carry it outside to the larger bins when it's full. We do have to carry the blue bin up and down the stairs, but it's really not a hassle. The bags just seem unnecessary.

And also, unless you're shopping at Whole Foods regularly, where would you get those perfectly sized paper bags to hang on the rack? If you have to buy them it seems wasteful and expensive. Everyone is bringing their own bags to the store now anyway. If I do get a bag with a purchase it tends to be a little plastic one.

Good find at $47. each? No way. I'm in Montreal and most stores don't supply bags (plastic or paper) for free anymore, so how would I get all those paper bags we're supposed to be doing without? I have a neat, city-supplied divided plastic bin. All it needs is a wash now and then. That's a good, responsible find.

We have a small waste basket in a lower kitchen cabinet. I use a grocery bag to line it, put the recycling in it, then take the full bag to a bigger container in the garage to haul to the landfill recycling center. (Mixed stream.) We go about once a month, and with pet food cans and water/soda containers, it piles up fast.

At out old residence we had curbside pickup, and a recycling bin in the car port. I just took stuff out as I emptied it... kind of a pain, but we had no space inside to collect it.

This system could be made with PVC pipe from a hardware store. It's plastic so painting it could be an issue.

Yes---LauraE is bang on the mark. Make a rack out of PVC that will fit precisely in the space you have to use. Or copper pipe---it would still be less than what the "original" costs.

If you care about the environment, wouldn't you be using reusable bags? We have a couple metal buckets, one for compost and one for recycling (we have comingled here too).

I was at Helsinki Design Week and saw these being sold by the inventors...for roughly 25-30 USD if I recall correctly. That seems a bit more reasonable than $48. Nonetheless, it's an ingenious design, I think.