Trash disposal system

Trash handling apparatus for transferring differing items of trash by category from a structure containing a place of trash generation to a remotely located trash pickup point so as to facilitate at least one of disposal and recycling thereof;

• said apparatus comprising, in combination:
• a) a structure containing a place of trash generation;
• b) an enclosed trash housing disposed at or adjacent a trash pickup point and remote from said structure, said housing including:
• i) normally closed, externally openable, first door defining means;
• and
• ii) a plurality of dedicated internal locations for removably housing respective ones of a plurality of trash containers each dedicated to receive a different category of trash;
• c) a plurality of trash containers removably positioned within respective different ones of said plurality of dedicated internal locations within said trash housing;
• d) at least one trash disposal point located remote to said housing and internally of said structure, said trash disposal point including:
• iii) a plurality of trash disposal ports respectively dedicated to receive specific ones of different categories of trash;
• and,
• iv) second door-defining means movable across the face of said plurality of trash disposal ports for permitting opening of any selected one of said disposal ports and closure of the balance of said disposal ports;
• e) vacuum-tight conduit defining means extending between said coupling said plurality of disposal ports and said plurality of designated internal locations in said enclosed trash housing;
• f) means for drawing a vacuum in said enclosed trash housing;
• and,
• g) means for selectively activating and deactivating said vacuum drawing means so that when a user desires to discard a particular item of trash, said vacuum discharge means can be activated to create a vacuum in said housing and in said conduit defining means so that upon shifting of said second door-defining means to open a particular one of said plurality of disposal ports dedicated to receive the particular trash item to be discarded, the user can insert that trash item into the now open dedicated trash disposal port, thereby causing such trash item to be vacuum conveyed from said open one of said plurality of disposal ports through said conduit defining means to the respective one of said plurality of dedicated internal locations in said trash housing for discharge into the proper one of said plurality of trash containers whereby said trash is sorted by category so as to permit ease of at least one of recycling and disposal thereof, as required.