Dutch company Brabantia has been making bins and storage products for close to 100 years! Founded in 1919 from humble beginnings as a small family business, Brabantia employs over 1000 people, is sold across 85 countries worldwide and is still family owned.
Here are our 5 reasons why we believe that Brabantia should be your first choice for the majority of your home keeping needs.
1. Brabantia is environmentally ethical
Designed to meet the needs of busy families and with family values ingrained within the company, Brabantia manufactures their products with sustainability and environmental awareness at the forefront of their practices.
With an ISO140001 Certification for Environmental Care, Brabantia is proud of their achievements, one of the most notable being in the manufacture of one of their most popular waste bins, is the NewICON Pedal Bin. This new and improved design includes an innovative soft-close lid, has a closure that is odour proof and most importantly they were built from 40% high-grade recycled material.
At the end of the life of these bins, Brabantia claims with current recycling practices that 60% of the steel can be recycled alongside 37% of the plastic components of the bin - a benchmark for waste bins makers.
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2. Brabantia keeps your food fresh for longer
Fresh bread? No problem, with the Brabantia Top Bread Bin, you can store your bread in style and prevent it from going stale prematurely.
Large in size, yet practical and space saving. Brabantia bread bins are designed to sit on your countertop or in your pantry, opening smartly within itself, therefore requiring no extra space for opening. With their flat backs, they sit snuggly against the wall and have matching canisters stack on top to store your dry foods like coffee, sugar, nuts, rice and more.
3. They are familiar with day to day living
While many Australians enjoy the luxury of large back yards to place a huge clothes line, most of us living in the cosmopolitan suburbs within cities like Sydney and Melbourne have less space to deal with, doubling balconies or patios for entertaining with drying our laundry.
No one likes having a large drying rack in such areas, taking up precious space or being an eyesore to look at. Fortunately, Brabantia has addressed this issue with the sleek and neat retractable clothes line. Simply fix neatly between two walls (4.4 metres max) and pull it out to get an ample 22 metres worth of drying space. Once clothes are dry, you can simply retract it into its neat stainless steel housing - perfect for apartment living!
22 metres of drying space from such a small and compact fixture!For those that have more family members living in their house (or tend to stretch laundry day out until they have nothing left in their closet!), Brabantia also has the larger collapsible drying rotary. Suitable to attach to the external side walls of a home, it is wind and weather resistant and like all things Brabantia - built to last.
Sorting out your recycling? Storing the kids toys? Sorting out loose items around the house? Storing cleaning items? The Brabantia Sort and Go bins are perfect organisation bins for around the house.
Coming in a range of sizes and colours, they are perfect to mix and match, are easily stackable and can even be attached to your walls - perfect for the garage or playroom!
What's best is that they also feature sturdy handles, making it easy for carrying around the house.
Perfect for sorting your cans, plastic bottles or paper for recycling, storing cleaning or loose items from around the house or keeping your garage or gardening shed tidy.
4. They understand Laundry more than anyone!
Brabantia understands that with busy families comes wash load after wash load of laundry!
Most laundry bins out there are either too small or too big, heavy to carry and move around the house. Many, with plenty of use, begin to smell or become grimy, the last thing you want hanging around in your laundry room or house.
Brabantia laundry bins, however, are completely the opposite. Ease of use is a paramount objective when they design and engineer their products and its obvious when using their laundry items.
For large families, the 50-litre matt steel laundry bin has a smartly designed lid where there's no need to remove it when throwing dirty clothes in. Simply drop them through the opening and forget about it. There are also small holes at the bottom, designed to air those soggy footy uniforms and sweaty gym gear.
The huge 50-litre capacity means the whole week's worth of laundry can be filled at a time. But what about when it's full? Inside is a removable inner laundry bag with velcro closing making it easy to transport to and from the washing machine.
Their recently launched stackable laundry boxes are also fantastic for storing freshly cleaned and folded clothing or carrying dirty laundry to the wash. With handles on either side and clever two-way openings, they are perfect for sorting various clothes or organising closets.
5. Brabantia builds things to last
From their waste and laundry bins to bathroom scales and toilet brushes, Brabantia designs products to last for years and is a core part of the company's ethos.
All of Brabantia's steel laundry and waste bins come backed by a 10 year guarantee for added peace of mind, a true testament of their build quality. For the movable parts like the clips, pedals or lids found across their bins, Brabantia offers part replacements that can be purchased directly to continue the life of their bins and reducing wastage in replacing them completely.
View the entire range of Brabantia kitchen, laundry and cleaning solutions here!
