Web sites, such as collaborative web sites, support a multi-stage
recycling bin scheme in which items erroneously deleted from a web site
can be restored to the web site. In a multi-stage recycling bin scheme a
user deletes an item from a web site to a user recycle bin. The item is
also deleted to a web site first stage recycle bin. On a subsequent
delete of the item from the user recycle bin, the item is deleted from
the user's recycle bin and the web site first stage recycle bin to a web
site second stage recycle bin. Only when the item is deleted for a third
time, from the web site second stage recycle bin, is the item permanently
deleted from the web site. Prior to a permanent delete from the web site
second stage recycle bin, an item can be restored to the web site.