Plastic garbage containers - an alternative to metal bins, which allows to speed up the collection and removal of solid household waste in different volumes. Tanks made of polyethylene are suitable for offices, construction sites, private houses, territories of factories and plants. They are convenient, practical, durable and are operated in extreme weather conditions in Russia.
Plastic tank design
Plastic containers are made from primary polyethylene, which is not a product of the recycling of raw materials. It is a durable material that does not absorb odors and is easy to keep clean. The light weight of the plastic trash can allows you to freely move the unloading tank to the garbage truck or around the office to collect garbage from baskets. Polyethylene retains its strength in winter at -40 ° C and in summer at +60 ° C.
The trash can design is simple. This is the container itself in the form of a rectangle or a truncated pyramid with a reinforced bottom and a rim for the garbage truck comb, covered with a lid. For ease of movement, rubber wheels are attached to the bottom of the tank. The lid of the container can be hinged or removable, have a composite structure with an opening for a bag of garbage. Sometimes the manufacturer adds additional structural elements, such as a foot pedal for lifting the lid.
Types of plastic containers
Plastic containers are conditionally divided into several groups by design. These are plastic garbage containers on wheels and fixed, with an arched, flat lid or without, with a composite “lid in the lid”. The volume of the polyethylene tank is 120-1100 liters.
Pros and Cons of Plastic Tanks
Compared with metal containers for solid waste, polyethylene have a number of positive qualities. This is high wear resistance and sufficient strength, anti-corrosion properties. The surface of the container is smooth, easy to clean, does not require painting and processing with anti-corrosion compounds. Polyethylene is inert to aggressive environments, heat and frost. The main plus of plastic garbage containers is weight. A polyethylene tank with a capacity of 120 liters weighs about 8 kilograms, and a metal tank of the same volume is almost three times more.
The disadvantage of using plastic for storing solid waste is that when the tank capacity is increased, its strength characteristics decrease.
Garbage container production
The containers are made on injection molding machine from primary low-pressure polyethylene HDPE by casting. The entire tank production process is automated. Equipment for the production of plastic garbage containers includes drying, a molding machine, a hopper for melting raw materials, a conveyor and manipulators to release finished products.
Production of the unit begins with drying the granular polyethylene to a certain level of humidity. Then the dry raw materials are fed into a special hopper for melting. Further production of plastic garbage containers consists in feeding the melt into the injection molding machine mold, where the workpiece is extruded by a profiled piston. After cooling, the tank is removed for further assembly - mounting the cover, wheels.
The choice of polyethylene tank
If you don’t need to store heavy garbage, plastic is the best material for a container with solid waste. The primary parameter when buying a tank is the capacity. Small plastic garbage containers of 120, 240 and 360 liters are suitable for installation indoors, in summer cottages, near cottages, in offices and in the surrounding area. For the collection and removal of garbage from residential complexes, yards, from small enterprises, 660 and 770 liters of volume are enough. The largest tanks of 1,100 liters are suitable for large-scale production.
In the case of constant acts of vandalism in the territory of solid waste storage, tanks of reinforced construction are selected, more durable and resistant to damage.
For ease of movement, garbage plastic containers on wheels are selected, their number depends on the volume - two or four. If the garbage truck is able to drive to the place of solid waste loading and there is no need to move the tank, this will affect the price of the purchased container.
If you need to fit a plastic tank into the landscape design, it does not matter, they are available in a variety of colors, and some manufacturers offer the application of the customer’s logo on the wall of the container.