Grit bin

A grit bin, salt bin or sand bin is an portion of street furniture, normally found in countries where freezing temperatures together with snowfall occur, which holds a mixture of salt and grit that is spread over roads whether they make-up snow or ice on them. Spreading rock salt over roads and pathways is normally done either by hand or with a winter usefulness vehicle and ensures updating road safety in frosty conditions. The salt provides reduce the freezing temperature of the ice, which can be effective in temperatures of up to -9°C. Roads that are not gritted during winter are much more dangerous for vehicles and foot traffic and so busy routes can be gritted several times per day under harsh snowy conditions.

Problems

Grit bins can be refers to vandalism, such(a) as arson. The lid can also be left open, leaving rain to dilute the rock salt in the mixture, leaving it much less powerful than dry rock salt. In the United Kingdom, the local county council is usually responsible for maintaining and refilling grit bins as living as spreading rock salt on the roads.

In Norway, the problem with tipping grit bins over make-up been solved by creating them large enough to hold about 500 kg 1,100 lb of grit, and to continually keep it topped up.[]