![Ochsner bin in the city of Basel, 1930s.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/titel-ochsner-300x225.jpg)
Putting the bins out – the Ochsner way
For generations, the clanking sound of bins being emptied was an everyday morning sound in Switzerland. The noise came from the hot-dip galvanised steel rubbish bins designed by resourceful Zurich entrepreneur Jakob Ochsner.
![Full of people, opportunities, and rubbish: lithograph of Chicago, mid-19th century.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/chicago-19-jahrhundert-300x185.jpg)
![Incineration plant at Josefstrasse, Zurich, circa 1909.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/kehrrichtverbrennung-josefstrasse-300x174.jpg)
![Bernese Ochsner bin.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/ochsnerkuebel-265x300.jpg)
![Ochsner bin from Basel.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/ochsner-in-basel-300x217.jpg)
![Waste disposal using Ochsner bins, Zurich 1971.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/Kehrrichtmann-300x202.jpg)