Anyone know a good place to buy recycle bins?

[W_HAMILTON]

I've been looking for a couple of recycle bins for awhile, just to make things a little neater in the kitchen. However, it seems like the ones I want, are like 40 BUCKS. Whaaaat? They're basically just like the plastic kitchen garbage cans you can buy for 10 dollars at K-Mart or someplace. Does painting them blue and posting a recycle sign on them up the price 30 bucks?

Anyone know where I can find some decently-priced ones, about the same size as a normal plastic kitchen garbage can, that can fit the blue plastic recycle bags inside of them? I think I'm looking for something around....30" x 12" x 14". Or something like that. I like some of the Rubbermaid products, but again, the price of the ones I am looking for run around $40 everywhere I'm able to find them. Anyone have any better ideas, or should I just stick with one of the cheap, regular garbage cans and put my recycling in there?

[Warren Stupidity]

1. They spontaneously arrive.

If you think about it, it would be just wrong to buy a recycle bin. Instead just go up the street and recycle somebody else's.

[Javaman]

2. I guess I'm lucky, here in austin we get them for free from out local fire stations. nt

[eleny]

3. Do they have to be blue?

I found some very large, gray storage bins at Target for $14.00 each and they have rollers on one side. I think they're the 45 gallons size. Very big. That price was the regular price.

[supernova]

4. We get ours from the county

recycling program. They give you two, but if you need more, you can call the R program office and they will drop you off extras the next time they come to your house to pick up the recycling (2x/month)

Although, I find them to be rather large to keep in my small house and am looking for a smaller stackable unit to keep in the utility room. Ah, we are never satisfied.

[W_HAMILTON]

6. Yeah, I don't need real big ones

The city provides blue plastic bags for us to put our recycling in, which is what we had been using. I just would like to put the plastic bags in a garbage-can-like container, so I don't have them lying around, or sticking out of a drawer, etc. Just trying to get things a bit more tidy around here in anticipation of the holidays.

This is sort of what I was looking for, maybe just a tad bit shorter:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0002ZWQSW/ref=ord_cart_shr?%5Fencoding=UTF8&m=A3SKJE188CW5XG&v=glance

But again, it's like 40 bucks. I don't plan to stash them outside for recycling pickup, I just plan to use them in my kitchen to put the plastic bags so I can make my recycling a little bit more orderly. At worst, like I said, I guess I can just pick up some regular size kitchen garbage cans, but I'd prefer to get an official recycling bin; I just can't justify spending $40 for one, though. There are some others posted on amazon.com for a little bit less, but they're smaller than I'm looking for.

[W_HAMILTON]

7. Well, I guess I answered my own question

After looking around a bit more on Amazon, I found:

http://www.amazon.com/Deskside-Paper-Recycling-Container-2957-06BL/dp/B00030L4RA/ref=pd_sim__img_2

It's a little bit smaller than I wanted, but it's reasonably-priced, and the recycle bags should be able to fit into it. So, I guess I'll go with a couple of them, unless anyone else has any other suggestions?

Thanks for the help everyone.

[bananas]

5. yard sales, thrift stores, goodwill, salvation army?

maybe some local recycling places have some ideas: http://earth911.org/