Question About Home Storage

Could use a little more information though. For instance do you live in a high humidity area of the country? Do you keep your coins in a basement? First floor? Windows and doors open a lot? Do you have or is there a pool near your home that is Chlorinated? Are your coins in Albums or Folders and if so, what brand? Do you live in an area where Sulfur Rich Coal is burned in power stations or steel mills?
As to the plastic bins you have your coins stored in, you really should have kept the manufacturers information from them so you could contact them as to what their products are made from. It is possible they could be made with PVC, ABS, recycled anything or almost anything.
The main problems for coins is humidity, gasses in the air, temperates. Those plstic bins could hold in as much humidity instead of just keeping it out. That too is a problem people don't realize is true of a safe also. You close the door and keep in whatever was in the area at the time.
If you can not keep humidity out of your house, you must find a method of keeping it from your coins. I've found keeping my doors and windows closed all the time and an electric dehumidifier on all the time really does the thing. Such a dehumidifier has a humidity control so it is on only when you need to get humidity down.
I also have an electonic air cleaning system on my furnace so that helps also.
Again though, more information is required.

I have a question about coin storage also. I have glass jars full of wheat cents and other misc. coins. All of the jars have tops on them. Nothing in the jars have a lot of monetary value but I do want to keep them. Am I doing them more harm than good by keeping them in the glass jars? If so then what should I keep bulk wheat cents in?

Agreed. Everytime my wife and I buy a pair of shoes we always keep thoe little packages. They suck the mositure out of a small space like nothing I have ever seen before.

Thanks for the responses everybody! I feel better now.

Hi Carl, thank you for the response. I do not have a pool and humidity is not a big issue as I live in Northeast PA. As far as the bins go, they are from Rubbermaid and I can try to find out what they are made of. I did purchase a small safe today but that will only hold a small part of what I have. The coins that are in folders are in older Library of Coins and some Intercept (for some of the better stuff). I also have a bunch of Dansco albums. I have a fondness for the Library Of Coins albums. I have to see if Intercept shield makes plastic slides that I can use in them in place of what came in them years ago although I do get some pretty toning on some coins that have been in the Library albums for a number of years. I am thinking I should get all of them out of the plastic bins. Anyone have any thoughts on wooden trunks?