simplehuman45 Liter Semi-Round Hands-Free Kitchen Step Trash Can with Soft-Close Lid, Matte Black

Great kitchen trash can. The lid is quiet and fits securely. We live in a warm climate where bugs are an issue and this can has a closed bottom so it performs well.Nice-looking. Sturdy and delivered in perfect condition. Worth the money.

Well made classic design garbage can holder. Uses generic kitchen size bags. Easy to clean.

I previously had a smaller trash can with a step lift lid which was plastic. This trash can has been amazing. It is very clean looking and the lid is all metal. I love that the lid closes quietly. What is also great is that you have the lid to use for trash which you have to step on the foot lever because it is flush with the rim, so it prevents people from lifting up on it. This trash can also holds twice the amount compared to my old trash can. You do want to be careful that you don't make it to heavy which is easy to do with how big it is. When it arrived it also came with some trash bags for it and a smelly that sticks to the top. I highly recommend ordering this trash can if you are looking for a new one. It has been well worth the purchase.

I was hesitant to spend this much on a trash can, but so many reviews talked about it being dog proof. I was ready to spend any amount to solve my dog & trash issue. For the first week things were great. The can holds a ton of trash (thanks to the very cool custom bags and fit removing an inner bucket.) The step was smooth and silent. It closes flush and therefore seemed to solve the dog problem. It also is exceptional at holding in odors. In fact my husband and I both commented that we were oddly attached and impressed with this trash can. Not something I expected to get so much pleasure from, but alas it really is an amazing product.That is until today. Three of my dogs are large and crafty but were not able to get into the can. The largest did step on the lever once but he wasn't smart enough to know what he did or how to do it again. He is a normal dog so that makes sense. The smallest dog (pictured) was able to break in. The thing is I'm not sure if I can blame the product. You see this little yellow lab is actually a rabid raccoon in a dog's body. Her intelligence, dedication and dexterity defy the laws of biology and physics. As you can see there is no remorse in her eyes, despite my being 8 months pregnant and needing to clean this up by crawling around on the floor. That isn't pictured because you can bet that if anyone else was home to take the photo, they would have been cleaning this up instead of me.In conclusion, who should splurge on this product?People without animals - absolutely!People with normal pets - you bet!People tricked into adopting a radicalized terrorist parading around in a cute dog disguise - definitely no.

bought his for my Moms house , she is happy with it , she doesnt shop online tho . looks good sitting there and it functions well .

Simply human always makes great quality products. This makes for a great gift for parents who are still using the old and traditional step garbage can. You just wave your hand and the lid opens effortlessly. I find that the battery life is great. The only downside is the garbage can is quite large so for a family of two you may find that your trash may sit in there for a long time before you empty. I’m surprised we did not buy something like this earlier because it’s so much easier to empty the trash without touching or stepping on something.

Really enjoying using this can - pricey but well worth the price

This is the first time we've purchased a "Robot" garbage can that wasn't the EKO brand that Costco carries. Costco always seems to have the one EKO can that they swap out every year for their newest "improved" can, and for one reason or the other, we've bought a new one nearly every year.I am going to talk about our previous 3 robots from EKO to establish our experience with them, and why this can is set apart, but I will try to be brief. Our first EKO was tall and loud. The motor could be heard across the house. The liner was held by a inner ring, the kind where you stuff the bag into the main can, fit the ring inside the bag into the channel in the can, and then fold the top of the bag back in on itself and put the lid on. It was fine, but left us with a goopy top of bag trying to pull it out to switch it out, and you had to fight the whole can to get it out. The next EKO we got turned out to be the best of the trio. They shortned it and made it wider, but they added an inner can for the bag, so when it came to take the garbage out, you pulled the inner can, which slid out easily, but the lid and mechanism always got super gross. The third, which was very closely modeled after the second, was not really as good, despite the tech improvements because they didn't address how easily the mechanism was affected by the garbage gunk that got on it, but the whole thing fried out 6 months after we got it, and it too 2 months for the company to replace it because they don't put model info on the can.So, during that 2 months of anger, I decided to buy elsewhere. We got way too used to the robot cans, because not needing to step or touch anything to toss stuff is great. This doesn't have an independent inner can, so I worried that taking it out would be a fight like our first can was, but unlike all 3 EKO cans, the lid doesn't have to be entirely lifted off and removed to change it out. It doesn't come off at all, for that matter. Instead it just opened on a hinge. So that alone made the risk worth it to me. The shape and wide openness of the opening was great because it means the lid and lip won't get goopy because it's hard to miss when dumping the goopier stuff now. The mechanism is also nearly impossible to get goopy due to the smart design. The hinge doesn't take anything back in with it at all.This can has no operational buttons. You cannot manually open this can. The trio of EKO's we had all had open and close buttons, and when you used the open buttons the cans would stay open until you hit the close button. This can does not have those. It will only open if triggered, but unlike the previous cans, the area of sensing is smarter, so the can stays open the whole time you are in front of it, so it won't close prematurely as you are throwing stuff out. The others close after a set amount of time, and their sense range is very small. Worst case, if you have to open the can manually, you can just grab the base of the whole lid, as if to take the bag out, and just lift that. It holds itself open so you can get the bag out, so it'll hold itself open for you to come and go as needed for that moment.The last big point is the bags themselves. They do make bags that are designed specifically to fit the height and width of this can, and it comes with a free 10 pack sample of them. It has the little dispenser pocket in the back. Such a wonderful idea on both ends, with 2 big flaws.One is that the bags themselves aren't very sturdy. The first bag we used, the hand strings broke, right away, when trying to pull it out of the can. I gave it the benefit of the doubt, but this happened multiple times over the course of the free sample pack. You can actually feel a kind of "fragile" feeling to them, almost like brittle plastic, rather than the more rubberized plastics you get with Kirkland Signature and Glad.The second is cost. If you look at the two ways you can get the custom bags, compared to the Kirkland Signature big box of universal bags, you can see a steep cost difference. Kirkland rings in at 8 cents a bag. The Amazon branded bags ring in at 14 cents a bag. And the on brand bags ring in at 19 cents a bag. So, with Kirkland you lose the firmer fit at the opening, and the form fitting inside, but you still get a good enough fit on both, as the lid mechanism holds the opening in place, and the bag itself still fills the space just fine, but you are paying a lot less money for them. You also lose the cool dispenser, but looking at the bigger packs of Amazon bags, you lose the dispenser there too. Getting on brand bags with the dispenser packs is even more expensive.So it's hard to see the overall value for money in this can if you plan to use their bags. If you can afford the jump in price for stuff like that, no big deal, but if you are operating on a budget, you may want to reconsider, or just do what we do and just use the Kirkland bags still.Either way, the can is overall great, compared to what we have used in the past. Robot cans are definitely cool, but do your research and don't just buy whatever seems cool. The EKO brand cans usually ring in at about $50, and as you read above, they have some pretty annoying fatal flaws. So if you want one to be reliable, and better covered by the manufacturer, look into ones like this one. Even though it's more expensive.