simplehuman45 Liter / 12 Gallon Rectangular Kitchen Step Trash Can with Soft-Close Lid, Grey Plastic

This trashcan is the best trashcan I've ever had. I'm going to echo the other reviewers here but I will not plagiarize. This really is a wonderful trash can and I can't believe I'm actually saying that. I guess I like it so much because I've only ever had trashcans that suck.Everything about this trashcan is fantastic. There's a pocket for extra trash bags on the backside of the can. My little boy likes folding up trash bags and stuffing them into this pocket.The foot pedal is well balanced with the trash can and when you step on it, the trash can doesn't lurch forward at you like other trash cans. The lid closes slowly so you can toss something extra in if you didn't remember the first time. The top rim lifts up and easily stands open so you can lift out a full trash bag and insert a new one. This is a terrific feature as most others have to be held open while you get the bag in only to have the lid slam down so hard that the bag falls into the can. NOT SO with this beauty. Now, it comes with simplehuman trash bags designed for this product that fit the trash can perfectly. They are lovely trash bags and durable as well. If you like higher quality trash bags, I recommend them, but they're not in my budget and so I buy the regular stretchy ones with the drawstring ties at the wholesale/bulk-item store nearest to me. The regular drawstring tie trash bags fit this can quite nicely. They are tight around the top rim of the can and I really like that because that means the they are NOT going to fall into the can no matter what I put in there. The store bags fit so well that we are able to stuff each bag so full that the bag will rip down lower but will never come loose at the top. This is not a problem for me. My beef with all other trash cans I've ever had was that the lid didn't keep the darn bag attached to the can, no matter what. Sometimes the top part of the bag will pop a bit where the drawstrings are, but this doesn't concern me, because the bag doesn't ever rip from the top.This trash can is easy to clean. Although this may not mean much, the stickers that came on the trash can were easy to remove too.I think the lid closing slowly is probably my favorite feature because I had grown so tired of the slamming lids of other trash cans. I have three children and a husband and so the old trash can made a heck of a lot of noise for a very long time.I'm so glad that I spent a little bit more and treated myself to this trash can. When people come to visit and compliment the trash can (can you believe that? that's how cool this thing is...) I can't help but tell them how much I like it.It's crazy that a trash can makes a difference in daily life in the kitchen, but it does.I can honestly say that I love this trash can.

Fits the narrow space i have perfectly. Very attractive and sturdy and several of my friends have asked me where I got it. Also, I live in a humid area and my previous metal can got rust spots before it was even close to wearing out. This can only has minimal metal. After a year and a half there is one tiny rust spot. Otherwise it is still looking good 👍

The look on my husband's face when I told him I had ordered an $80 trash can (80 at the time... I think the price may have gone up since then) was simultaneously hilarious and also a little concerning.... I was really hoping that it would turn out to be decent and worth the money. I mean, either way, I would be right... but still, it's nice to actually be right when you're right. Ya know?Anyways, the $80 trash can definitely ended up being worth the money... although my husband would never admit this. But I think he likes the fancy features too... even if he doesn't find them necessary. Lol.Of course, the silent-close lid (that really is silent) and the little pedal to open it are super convenient and function very well. But then the added details, like the inner liner pocket dispenser and stabilizer bar on the bin are some of my favorite things about it overall.I will say that while I was a little annoyed when I realized that this can took custom bags and could not fit the regular kitchen-sized bags that we'd usually buy, the K bags that are made for it are really good quality and provide some extra space as well as less tearing than any of the Hefty ones I'd used in the past.It's easy to clean, does everything it's supposed to (and a lil extra) and looks extremely nice in the small kitchen we have (without taking up too much space). What more could you ask for with a trash can? haha.

Trash cans haven’t always been around for families to dispose of their trash in. So what did they do with their garbage? That depended on where they lived.Farmers and their families turned food scraps into pig slop. Of course, pigs will eat anything, even dead bodies, so who knows what was fed to them. What wasn’t fed to the pigs was buried in a hole in the ground or burned. So for those who lived on farms, trash disposal wasn’t that much of an issue.But what about those who lived in the cities, especially those in apartment buildings? They wouldn’t own their own property to dig holes and bury it. Tenants might own pets, but it is doubtful they would have their own pigs. And burning trash inside an apartment probably wouldn’t be a good idea if you wanted to keep your apartment.What options were left? Residents didn’t want the trash to pile up inside their home, so they simply threw it out the window and onto the street. If there was already too much garbage in the street—it wouldn’t take long for it to accumulate—it could be hauled to a river or some other body of water and dumped. Thinking about the stench all of the trash plus the fact that horses would urinate and defecate on these same streets makes me thankful for trash cans, garbage men, and the system of waste disposal we now have. And it also makes me thankful that everyone doesn’t travel by horse.Pigs will eat anything. A lot of small towns and cities had pigs set loose on the streets so they would eat the trash. That would help the trash problem, but pigs would also leave behind their own kind of trash.All of the filth in the streets only led to disease. Something had to be done. The streets had to be cleaned by something other than pigs and vultures. Trash didn’t need to be thrown there in the first place.Laws to keep trash from being dumped in the streets were passed and ignore. In 1757, Ben Franklin started the first street cleaning service, and the public was encouraged to dig pits—where I don’t know—to dispose of their waste.In 1875 England, the first trash bin (trash can) appeared and weekly garbage collection began. Somewhere between 1885 and 1900, trash cans also appeared in America.The trash can is one item that I’ve always taken for granted, and it is a necessity. You need at least two of them in your house: one for the kitchen and one for the bathroom.Trash cans can be bought just about anywhere. And to be honest, I never thought about how important a trash can was until my recent purchase of a new one. I was used to the trash bags breaking if the trash in them weighed too much. And every so often, of course, I ended up with a defective trash bag that would bust and send my garbage spilling across the bottom of my trash can and across my kitchen floor. Because of this, the trash can never stayed completely clean. Never. And that didn’t please me.But the simplehuman trash can I had bought and put in my bathroom was perfect. My simple Dollar Store trash can needed to be replaced with one that my dog couldn’t get into. Precious was the perfect dog, but when she was mad at me, her one form of rebellion was to go and pull things out of the bathroom trash can. That had to stop. So I bought a trash can that had a lid on it, a lid that could only be opened by stepping on a pedal. Perfect. Precious never did figure out how to open it.The simplehuman trash can I chose for my kitchen is almost too pretty to be a trash can. When you step on its wide steel pedal, the lid soundlessly opens. When your foot moves off the pedal, it closes just as quietly. But a trash can without a trash bag wouldn’t be much use.The trash bags (liners) that simplehuman makes for what has to be the ultimate trash can are super strong; they make all other trash bags seem flimsy in comparison. Have you ever had your trash bag slide off the lip of the can and fall down into the yucky trash? The simplehuman trash bags fit so securely there is no chance of this happening.Any trash can would be an improvement over having to throw your trash onto the street or into a body of water, but this simplehuman trash can will spoil you.