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Safer Neighbourhoods, Cleaner World
Reducing fire risk, crime and ASB with well-designed refuse and recycling storage containment. Find out more >>
Increase Recycling from Hard to Reach Areas
Progress towards zero-waste in communal settings with accessible, user-friendly recycling hubs.Find out more >>
Reduce Fire Risks from E-Mobility Devices
Reducing fire risk from battery charging of e-mobility devices stored in and around buildings. Find out more >>
Reduce Contamination of Recycling Streams
Successfully co-locate waste and recycling collections with clear signage, graphics and bin fill restrictors.Find out more >>
Encourage Sustainable Travel
Encourage sustainable travel choices, with safe, secure and accessible storage for bikes, e-bikes and scooters. Find out more >>

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

metroSTOR Webinar: Flats Recycling – why we should close refuse chutes

With the deadline for recycling and food waste collections in all residential buildings just over a year away, finding reliable solutions is more important than ever.

Our upcoming webinar, Flats Recycling: Why we should close refuse chutes, offers an expert panel who will share insights on fire safety, operational challenges, and residents’ reactions to closing refuse chutes. Join us on 23rd January at 11am.

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E-mobility and Fire Safety Webinar

metroSTOR Webinar: E-mobility and Fire Safety – Are We Facing a Growing Risk?

Since 2020, e-mobility device fires have caused 15 fatalities and 200 injuries, highlighting a pressing risk for landlords. Many remain unaware of how many devices are stored or charged in their buildings—a blind spot some warn could lead to a disaster. Join us on 28th January as Gemma Darville and Stacey Thwaites from Gentoo Group share insights from their proactive approach, including device checks and tailored advice to reduce risks.Long Millgate.

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metroSTOR Product Solutions

Southmead, Bristol

Working closely with Bristol Waste Company and Bristol City Council on a trial-based project in Southmead, a northern suburb and council ward in the city, metroSTOR completed installation on a mini recycling centre, utilising metroSTOR secure bin housings, incorporating unique vinyl wrap designs drawing inspiration from the local history and culture.

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CPD Seminars

metroSTOR 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.

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DEFRA’s ‘Simpler Recycling’ Plan: Looking Ahead to Mandatory Food Waste Collections by 2026

On 21st October 2023, the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA) announced its ‘Simpler Recycling’ plan. Contained within the new scheme are proposals for most households to receive weekly food waste collections by 2026. In the following article, metroSTOR explores what these changes will mean for households, local authorities and operators of Materials Recovery Facilities (MRF) in the coming years.

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Manchester City Centre, Manchester City Council

metroSTOR worked with Manchester City Council, to provide neat and easily accessible external bin storage for residential recyclables in Manchester City centre. metroSTOR PBM Bin Storage Housings fitted with sedum green roofs and displaying the renowned Manchester Worker Bee symbol, were installed in four locations – Thomas St, Piccadilly, Piccadilly Gardens and Long Millgate.

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metroSTOR 5C

metroSTOR 5C is our unique end-to-end approach for the delivery of successful waste and recycling infrastructure. Consulting in detail on how each proposal measures against the five key elements of capacity, convenience, communication, consistency and cleanliness, metroSTOR 5C brings confidence to the decision making process, ensuring that both quantitative and qualitative target improvements can be achieved. Read More

From 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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Client Testimonials

Wherever you have communal bins, it’s a magnet for people leaving stuff. Where we’ve got metroSTOR bin housings, the caretaker has told me that he’s seen an increase in the cleaning standards due to the bins being contained - they’ve really cleaned the area up. The mobile cleaners are saying that it’s allowing them to concentrate more on the cleaning inside the blocks, which is what they should be doing, rather than going round litter-picking. It really works.
Tony Gant
Estate Services Officer, Clarion Housing
There were some mixed reactions to the initial roll-out, but residents have quickly become accustomed to using the communal facilities and we’re already seeing a reduction in fly-tipping and a lot more recycling, largely because the facilities are accessible, safe and easy to use. Along with the other work we have done around the estate with upgrades to the homes and the surrounding landscaping, I believe that the waste and recycling hubs have made a lasting improvement to the Pollards Hill neighbourhood and the residents’ daily lives.
Alan Mortimer MCIOB
Regeneration Programme Manager, Moat Homes
Wherever we have installed metroSTOR units we have found them to dramatically reduce instances of fly-tipping, encourage residents to dispose of the refuse and recyclables responsibly and improve the appearance of our neighbourhoods.
Kevin Murray
Contract Performance Manager, Camden Council
Dacorum Borough Council commissioned metroSTOR to design and install communal mobility scooter stores at a number of Supported Housing Schemes. The excellent service and advice provided by metroSTOR has enabled the Council to provide over 50 spaces for mobility scooter users in safe, clean and fully compliant conditions. This has significantly improved the quality of life for the tenants using these facilities. Dacorum Borough Council continue to work closely with metroSTOR to install mobility scooter storage facilities within the borough.
Simon Smith ACMA
Asset Team Leader, Dacorum Borough Council
The units are cleverly designed and have enhanced our external spaces. This enabled us to locate the recycling bins at points where residents regularly pass, encouraging correct usage.
Jon-Paul Elwart
Building Surveyor, Welling Partnership
Fife Council recently installed the metroSTOR bin enclosures on some blocks where we had serious issues with side-waste. They immediately reduced the time spent by our clean-up teams and absolutely transformed the area into an area tenants can be proud of. We now plan to install many more of these across our estates.
Keith Brown
Housing Asset Manager, Fife Council

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Closing refuse chutes to reduce fire risk

Creating a cleaner and greener borough involving the community

Hounslow have a social housing stock of around 16,000 homes and as part of the development of their fire safety strategy following the Grenfell tragedy and their estate improvement plan, they decided to implement a series of measures on the high-rise blocks which went over and above the minimum standards that were generally being adopted within the sector.
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New metroSTOR organics cart enclosure set to make a difference in the heart of NYC

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.

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