Most of us have curbside recycling collection these days but if you don't, or if you don't live in a city, you may be trekking periodically to a recycling center to get rid of the cans and bottles and newspaper and cardboard that accumulate in your home.
Here's a product that will save you some of those trips: the Ecopod Recycling System, which has a built-in compacting mechanism. This makes it possible for this relatively small can to store 50 bottles or cans as well as newspapers and other recyclables on a 16" x 20 1/2" footprint.
great idea but it counteracts the idea of being green. More resources have to be used in order to manufactor this item. I think its best to reuse paper bags for recycling that you already have.
But then there's the savings on emissions from fewer trips to the recycling center.
$328! What makes a trash can (or recylcing bin) so expensive? Neat idea, but why not make it accessible so people would be more inclined to recycle?