Wheelie Safe® Safety Handles for waste bins

Wheelie Safe® Handling

We’ve all experienced the delightful job of re-positioning  the wheelie bins after they have been emptied.

The most common place is backed up to a wall, pulling and pushing from the front lip.

Bin Juice 

As your bin gets emptied out its picked up by some metal claws and tipped in the back of the lorry, the contents passing over the front lip. This action can cause light damage resulting in sharp nicks and burrs, enough to cause mild cuts and abrasions potentially through disposable latex gloves. Even with the best of waste management procedures in place it’s pretty much guaranteed that at some stage the dreaded bin juice will appear! This becomes of great interest to our little furry friends and whilst munching away they leave their own deposits...URGH!!!

The list of nasties that can be found include but are not limited to the following: Weil’s disease, cholera, dysentery, typhoid, onchocerciasis, sandfly fever, conjunctivitis, campylobacteriosis, esthetician, coli, diarrhoea, and hepatitis A.

Wheelie Safe® Solution

Following persistent requests to work on a safety handle for this task from an NHS Trust we are delighted to offer to market our patented design. Interest from the private health care sector resulted in successful trials with prototypes across a selection of their portfolio. So much so the tooling has now been commissioned and we will have the first batch early 2025, with pre-orders being taken now.