The Bin Wash Station: What Happens to Ninety Litres of Water per Bin

A depot washing 60 bins a day uses about 90 litres per bin. That is 5,400 litres a day, 1.3 million litres a year, carrying food solids, fat and detergent. In most depots it goes to a drain with a silt trap that gets cleaned when somebody remembers. The bins come out clean and the drain does not, an…