Litter Bins and Ashtrays for Airports and Other Terminals

Company FinBin
Date 19.07.2014

Safe recycling bins at Sweden’s largest international airport

Requirements
Designed recycling bins to support the modern image and enable safe and effective waste collection at an international airport.

Starting point
Traffic and passenger services at Arlanda Airport have been growing continuously. Earlier, the waste bins have been selected case by case along the building or renovation of the terminals and other areas. At the security check points there was a need for larger safety waste baskets to collect e.g. forbidden liquid containers from hand luggage.

Solution
Recycling litter bins from FinBin Bermuda Series unify the interior image and make it easy for passengers to sort different waste fractions. Alltogether about 70 Bermuda 80’s, Doubles and Triples are in use in terminals 2, 3 and parts of terminal 5 as well as in Arlanda’s shopping area Sky City. Larger, customized Bermuda bins are being tested at the security checkpoints.

Design waste bins keep passengers and cleaners happy
Stockholm Arlanda Airport is the largest international airport in Sweden with close to 20 million passengers per year. It is owned, operated and developed by a state-owned company Swedavia which manages altogether 11 airports in Sweden.

“Uniform interior designs are a part of the pleasant service experience we want to create for air-passengers. We chose FinBin Bermudas because they look nice, suit perfectly to our Nordic interior designs and enable recycling at the source. Cleaning of fingerprints is easy because the stainless steel material is protected with special coating, and the bins are relatively easy to empty. Different compartments and recycling guidance helps to keep paper, PET bottles and general waste separated. The litter bins are also self-extinguishing, which is a very important safety aspect for us. We have now experience of FinBin Bermudas for about a year. I can warmly recommend them for passenger terminals.”

Martin Nordefors, Swedavia’s Terminal Coordinator, Stockholm Arlanda Airport

Security control has special needs for waste collection
The aviation security regulations mean that a lot of prohibited items are handled and dealt with at the airports’ security check-points.
Today for instance, the volume of liquid bottles and cans to be left behind prior to and in connection with the security controls are very high. This waste must be managed well in order to avoid security and hygiene problems.  We realized that larger, lockable FinBin Bermudas could solve this issue. They also continue the same waste bin look and feel that passengers have seen and that is used in other parts of the terminal system. Together with FinBin we created a capacious model with four different compartments with recycling signs. The first “Super” Bermuda is in test use since January 2012. So far I have been happy with the bins and the quick modification service we have got from the company.”
Jane Ringstedt, Swedavia’s Security Equipment Coordinator, Stockholm Arlanda Airport

Contact

FINBIN Products
by Lehtovuori Oy
Hopeatie 4
33470 Ylöjärvi
Finland
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