DIY Recycling Chute

Attics and Basements, Garage and Storage, Green Home, Interior, Repairs and Installation, Video by Danny Lipford

Finding room in the kitchen to store the various bins needed for recycling can take up a lot of valuable cabinet space.

Here Danny comes up with an innovative solution to the problem by installing chutes made from standard 4” dryer vent pipe that send cans and plastic bottles to bins located on a lower floor of the home.

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  1. Deb T Says:
    August 28th, 2007 at 16:14

    What a great idea!!!!!!! As a woman who is having to renovate the house for an appraisal herself, because my husband recently had back surgery that failed, this seems easy enough for me to handle as well as taking an enormous problem out of the kitchen that until now I couldnt figure out how to handle correctly. It appears to be very cost effective. I am wondering if concrete tubing would do the same thing or if it would be cheaper..I have honestly never bought drier tubing, so I guess I will have to price it out:) again thanks!!!

  2. Carl Wohlfeil Says:
    February 24th, 2009 at 19:47

    I was planning on doing this in my home but I am struggling with designing a chute that can handle glass recyclables without them breaking at the bottom. Any ideas?

  3. Chris H Says:
    March 17th, 2009 at 10:22

    how about trying a small bend in the tubing to make the bottles enter on a slide instead of a drop. The resistance would slow the bottles and maybe save them from breaking.

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