Compartmentalized refuse container

In combination,

• an elongated upright container for holding refuse and the like,
• said container having a closed bottom, a sidewall structure including a set of side walls upstanding about the bottom, and a top opening defined by the upper edges of the side walls,
• said container being adapted to be loaded and unloaded through said top opening by a person standing to the sides of the container,
• said side walls of the container defining a hollow bin for the refuse between the closed bottom and top opening of the container, and said bin having a pair of apertures therein which open through the sidewall structure to the outside of the container at levels below the top opening thereof,
• a divider panel for forming a false bottom in the container,
• one of said apertures being rectangular and disposed at an intermediate level between the top opening and bottom of the container, to form a horizontally extending slot for the divider panel,
• said divider panel being removably insertable in the bin through the slot and said container having means disposed about the bin at the level of the slot to support the panel crosswise of the bin at said level,
• the other of said apertures being disposed at a level relatively below the slot and adapted to form an entry port for loading refuse in the portion of the bin below the slot, whereby two types of refuse can be loaded in the relatively top and bottom portions of the bin, above and below the slot, segregated from one another by the panel, and then the relatively top and bottom portions of the bin can be separately unloaded through the top opening of the container, to preserve the integrity of the respective types of refuse, by unloading the relatively top portion of the bin through the top opening, and then removing the panel through the slot to open the relatively bottom portion of the bin to the top opening of the container.