metroSTOR Safer Neighbourhoods, Cleaner World methodology delivers external storage infrastructure for the social housing sector. From waste and recycling to personal mobility devices, our product systems reduce fire risk and waste costs, while improving local environments and helping deliver sustainability targets.
With over 15,000 metroSTOR units in operation, we have gained a deep understanding of those challenges facing social housing providers, bringing more than a decade of successfully changing behaviours through effective design, communication and ongoing support.
Whatever we’ve learnt, we share; through consultancy services online, site assessment and CPD project alignment workshops, our team helps build the knowledge and understanding across stakeholders for successful project outcomes over the long term
As local authorities are bearing the eye-watering financial costs of fly-tipping removal, hear about the solutions and approaches being deployed by other authorities to tackle residential dumping (bulky items and black bags) from all angles. Join us on April 23rd for an engaging Fly-Tipping Solutions Session, hosted by behaviour change and sustainability expert, Livvy Drake with representatives from The Cambridge and Peterborough Waste Partnership and Essex County Council.
MORE INFOJoin us for an engaging and interactive Fly-Tipping Solutions Session, hosted by behavioural change and sustainability expert, Livvy Drake. With estates often bearing the brunt of repeat fly-tipping, this session will highlight how housing providers and local authority teams can collaborate on targeted interventions, from improved resident engagement to enforcement strategies that deter waste dumping.
Join us in Birmingham at metroSTOR’s Refuse Chute Closure Workshop to hear from Adam Briggs (Citizen Housing) and other experts who’ve already led the way, tackling fire risk, improving waste services and bringing residents on board with chute decommissioning.
We’re pleased to invite housing professionals, estate teams and building safety officers to our next in-person workshop, focused on the closure of refuse chutes in high-density housing.
SIGN UPmetroSTOR offers free CPD sessions to enhance your outdoor storage unit specifying skills and provide essential best practice guidance on the safe storage of waste and recycling bins.
more infoWorking alongside the Lincoln City Council, the team at metroSTOR completed the installation of these metroSTOR PBM Bin Storage Housings as part of improvements to waste management provision in high-rise buildings. At Shuttleworth House, existing refuse chutes have been replaced with new external waste and recycling hubs, encouraging recycling while reducing fire risk and costly maintenance expenditures.
READ MOREFrom early space-planning exercises through to detailed design, metroSTOR provides Specifiers with the tools to ensure that they achieve attractive and compliant storage solutions for both recycling and waste containers and cycles within the optimum footprint, on-time and on-budget.
The metroSTOR team is committed to helping our customers find the optimum storage solution for any and every project in this rapidly-evolving world, where we need to adapt quickly to meet the challenges facing the natural environment and even humanity itself.
We combine this commitment with many years of experience on the ground in some of the most challenging urban environments, developing a range of outdoor storage solutions that are not only robust and dependable but attractively styled.
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We love seeing a new organics cart enclosure hitting the streets. Know what we love more? Seeing others getting excited about it. metroSTOR recently installed a brand new F-Series Organics Cart Enclosure at Compost Power’s Williamsburg site. Featuring keypad access and a large aperture, the units fully comply with NYC’s containerization laws. Read more about the project here.