Waste disposal in the kitchen / Wall breakthrough

Has anyone had experience with this or built something like this themselves?

I think it's a great idea. I have the following suggestions:

1. At least place the kitchen on the upper floor, otherwise the trash won't slide down properly. Alternatively, put the openings on the ground floor on the ceiling leading to the upper floor and attach a rolling ladder. This also saves you windows on one wall, as the construction will take up quite a bit of space.

2. Finally a suggestion for reasonable cellar use. Because then you can build an internal chute that also works from the ground floor. Place five bins in the cellar and build a proper access. That way, half the cellar is used sensibly and you don’t fill it with things you don’t need.

Sarcasm off.

I currently live in a building with about 30 apartments (terrible!!!). Here, two 80-liter bins (weekly emptying) each for residual waste and two 80-liter bins for organic waste are enough with proper waste separation. All very easy. Every four weeks 1-2 yellow bags, and paper is always taken to the bin when going out. What are your ideas about your trash? Trash drawer in the kitchen and that’s it.

For plastic waste, there is the bin; you don’t have to temporarily store everything in bags. Just take out black and organic waste directly as well. You can store paper in the basement if desired or simply have 4 bins outside.

Trust me, something like that will bring more problems into the house than desired. The whole thing will cost a lot of money and also consume energy. Additionally, you have to clean it quite often, as there will always be some spillage. Unless you package everything almost airtight before each disposal. But then you might as well take the bags out directly.

What I occasionally wish for is a garbage disposal in the sink like in American series... such a thing is not allowed here, is it?

I have one; you just have to get it approved.

Separate enclosure for trash bins and include them in the thermal envelope. Or look for a flap that has U-values similar to windows and have it installed according to the relevant technical regulations, then there will be no problem with thermal bridges. One could also simply use small-format windows instead of flaps, then you can observe the trash and immediately see whether the eggshell thief is a raccoon or a fox. Do I need to mention the irony mode? :P

Oh, you are all so stupid.... *cry*

Are only we so incompetent with trash? We are currently renting a house with a small kitchen (just enough space for bowls and pots under the countertop). In one corner of our kitchen there are 10 glass bottles on the floor (wine bottles, tomato paste jars, vodka bottles) that we occasionally carry down to the basement and put in a box there. Then there is a plastic thing with a yellow bag inside that tears open every few weeks because of a sharp-edged can, and we take it to the basement once a week, and in summer there are maggots from the not quite empty yogurt cups. Then we have a small brown bag standing around for bio-waste that we take out to the bin every 1–2 days. Then we have a black bucket with a bag inside standing around for residual waste and a stack of paper waste. All of this is currently standing in the kitchen next to the aquarium... At the moment there is no other place in the kitchen, and under the sink was always full too quickly. In the new kitchen you might be able to build trash bins under the countertop but that’s never really practical either, and you constantly have to wash out the bio bin so it doesn’t rot and smell, and the plastic bag is too big for under the kitchen, and having another small bag that you later stuff into the big one which then tears is no good either... (We only have bags and no bins for plastic) For the pipe construction I would get a plastic bin for the plastic bag in case it tears someday

Mmm, it’s definitely delicious in summer when you send food scraps down the pipe outside and after a few days the maggots crawl back into the kitchen... Better plan for a spacious trash shed outside. Cardboard is cut up and disposed of outside right away, residual waste is taken out every few days, glass whenever it accumulates. In the kitchen, just plan a base cabinet with compartments for residual waste, organic waste, a small paper bin, and possibly an interim storage bin for plastic. For plastic, then put a bin for the yellow sack in the trash shed or in the pantry.

I’m certainly not averse to unconventional and labor-saving solutions, but in my opinion your idea is not well thought out. Over time it creates more work. More garbage. More stink.

You can also collect the organic waste normally in a garbage bag within the waste system and then dump the garbage bag into the bin.
You can - like probably most kitchen owners - install a waste separation system in the drawer/compartment under the sink. For example, three plastic buckets (residual waste, organic waste, [gelber Sack]), and when one bucket is full, it is simply emptied. That's how I've always known it (last four houses/apartments).