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Goin' green's bin real nice
Custom-designed sheds now part of how T.O.'s trashing it in city of the 21st century
Torontonians need not suffer the indignity of exposing their clunky garbage and recycling bins on their front stoops for all to see.
Toronto-based Bin Solutions (bin solutions.ca) has custom-designed cedar shed kits that neatly hold all three City of Toronto bins, with a little extra room for storage. The bins are also raccoon-proof.
Not so fast, Rocky
JOHN LORINC
Globe and Mail Update
June 6, 2007 at 9:54 AM EDT
Three years ago, Zion Shraiter, an Israeli general contractor, pulled up stakes and moved from Tel Aviv to Toronto with his wife, a documentary filmmaker. Soon after arriving, he found himself aghast at the sight of piles of recycling bins and garbage cans strewn across the front porches and driveways of every house in his new neighbourhood.
"I was shocked," says Shraiter, a tall, sinewy man with a talkative streak. In Tel Aviv, builders can't get a construction permit unless their plans include an enclosed storage area for waste bins.
Bin Solutions' "Be A Good Neighbour" Campaign Wins Toronto's 2006 Clean and Beautiful City Appreciation Award!
Unique Solution for Recycling Outdoors Recognized by Toronto City Hall
Press Release
Toronto, Ontario - Sep 28, 2006 Bin Solutions is proud to announce that we have been awarded the 2006 Clean City, Beautiful City Appreciation Award for our outdoor waste and recycling storage units. The awards ceremony, held at City Hall on September 26th, was hosted by Deputy Mayor Sandra Bussin with Mayor David Miller and City Councillors in attendance.
The City's program stresses the beautification of Toronto and encourages citizens to do their part to clean up the cityscape. We, at Bin Solutions, believe that to appreciate the value of a cleaner more beautiful city you must have a contributing hand in it. Our products not only contribute to the hygiene and beautification of Toronto, they solve the problem of unsightly and offensive sanitation mess.
Company turns big mess into tidy profit
Garbage containers stymie raccoons' nightly dining habits
By Terry Poulton - Business Edge Published: 01/05/2006 - Vol. 2, No. 1
When can an entrepreneur's wildest dream come true?
When he or she spots an urgent, widespread problem and comes up with a unique and limitlessly scalable remedy. That's just what's happening at a now tiny but sky's-the-limit Toronto company called Bin Solutions.
Its founder and president, Zion Shraiter, says his inspiration for creating the handsome containers for garbage cans and recycling bins and boxes that are his sole stock in trade was the shock he got when he first emigrated to Toronto several years ago.
"It was so nice and clean here and everybody was so welcoming and polite," the Israeli native recalls.
