12 responses so far ↓

• 1 jessica // Apr 6, 2004 at 11:15 pm

  that is the BEST picture! and not a bad trash can either

• 2 Hot Abercrombie Chick // Apr 7, 2004 at 2:17 am

  I love the trashcans with the little step-on-to-open part:)

• 3 Nan // Apr 7, 2004 at 9:01 am

  You got one! That’s great! Where did you end up buying it from?

• 4 rachelleb // Apr 7, 2004 at 9:12 am

  Bed Bath & Beyond .. I haven been wanting it for a few weeks but had to wait until I could get someone to drive me there to buy it bc it would be hard to carry it on the subway or bus.

• 5 el // Apr 7, 2004 at 11:28 am

  i have a simplehuman trashcan. but it’s a small one for the bathroom. lucy has not yet figured out how the step-mechanism works yet, thankfully.

• 6 Nan // Apr 7, 2004 at 1:42 pm

  Makes sense. It’ll beat emptying the one under your sink every night.

• 7 joe // Apr 7, 2004 at 5:17 pm

  I saw their big line of wastecans in the last BBandB catalog, look great, but the one I liked was about $100 I think. I guess students weren’t meant to buy $100 garbage cans, so I’ll have to wait on my eventual future job for that.

  I do like the whole simplification idea though. I take that route with my apartment all the time, mainly because any attempt to introduce something new or interesting results in my dog trying to eat it.

• 8 rachelle // Apr 7, 2004 at 5:52 pm

  joe, some of them are very expensive, like in the butterfly series, but you should look again. mine was far less than $100.

• 9 amy // Apr 7, 2004 at 6:31 pm

  awesome photo and can! thanks for the heads up on a great product and site!

• 10 Pauly D // Apr 9, 2004 at 12:58 pm

  I wonder what would happen if you slid that can over the vent?

• 11 Jeff D // Apr 10, 2004 at 11:54 pm

  Hmmm… this looks just like the one we have. Probably is. Great photo!

  Unfortunately, I find the can a slight P-I-T-A. If this is like ours, it has a plastic sleeve, which you’re tempted to drop your trash right into. Until you realize that the plastic sleeve is going to get all sticky and gross rather quickly. And it’s just long enough to make it impossible to clean (unless you’re plasticman, and have stretchy arms). So, then you go and put a trash bag in it. Problem solved, right? Not so fast! When you attempt to remove the bag, you realize that it’s too full, and the more you pull, the more it starts to stretch and tear. Tip: don’t pull by the strings of the bag; instead, grab a bunch of the top of the bag, and pull the whole thing. So, you’re halfway through FINALLY getting this bag out… but wait! It gets stuck on the metal handle at the top of the sleeve! So you now need to grab the plastic sleeve with one hand, the trash bag with the other hand, and the metal handle with your third hand.

  One last thing. Don’t put the can under a shelf, where, for example, you might store books which can fall off and dent your nice, shiny can. ‘Cause then you’ll have a nice, shiny dent. Not that I’d know this or anything…

  Did I mention… nice picture!

• 12 Liza // Sep 3, 2004 at 4:34 pm

  I got the 10-gallon one and it’s about a year old now. My family enjoyed and loved it. Everyone that comes to our house and see it work are impressed but a couple of weeks ago the smooth mechanism to close it quit working and now it just slams it close. I want to have it fixed but I don’t know what to do and where to get help. Can anybody help?
  ((*:*}}Liza

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