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Um... first let me see if I'm getting it right. It's holding reclaimed plastic bags? Wouldn't it be greener to use a normal trash can without bags and take reusable bags to the store? Or use the trash can you have with the reused bags? Or buy a recycled plastic bag for your normal can? I'm leaning toward not because it looks like flimsy plastic. It's not green if it breaks and you have to get another one.

Kinda useless in towns like SF where plastic shopping bags are no longer allowed - and arent' we supposed to be bringing our own bags to the stores when we do our shopping nowadays anyway?

This plastic gadget is about 15 years too late...

How is this an eco can?

Wow everyone is cranky today.
Happy aught nine.
I like the idea of this can, as it seems nearly impossible to not build up a stack of plastic bags at home (and yes I go the tote route as often as possible), however it is kinda fug.

I have a similar plastic bin (5.99 @ The Container Store) that uses plastic grocery bags. (Simplehuman has a nice metal one, too.) Since many, many people buy trash can liners, I do think it's green to reuse the grocery bags (and plastic grocery bags, while not better than fabric, are arguably greener than paper).

The problem with this one, though, is the ugly slits down the sides- not needed at all, and makes the bin weaker/more likely to break! just stuff the extra bags under the current bag.

Maybe "eco" is short for "economical"...

While this design is pretty good, and the idea of the handles are genius, I'd be pretty unwilling to pay 25 dollars for anything holding my trash. You'll fair better just using the bag by itself.

Not terribly attractive with all the plastic bags wadded up at the bottom, but then I've never seen a trash can that WAS particularly attractive... When I was growing up we kept a paper bag under the sink for trash, when it was full it went into the outside trash can.

And indeed, there are more and more places where the flimsy plastic bags used here are an option, or not offered, rather than ubiquitous. I agree, this plastic bag holder is not a design treat

eco whatever- it makes them more accessable to use on a regular basis. I always forget to bring my bags with me to the store so this is a great way to not have to buy extra trash bags.

I think this is a lesson for manufacturers not to label their products with the "eco" moniker unless it's completely and obviously so. The name invites some valid criticism (though I personally like this design matched up with some biodegradable corn plastic bags).

I don't get it... Hey when you come home from shopping and unload your plastic bags and then - where do you put them while you're waiting to fill the one on top? I don't want to look at the handles. It is a little "too" stylish, designed, structured, whatever. I have a nifty little thin pail that's just right, and it was cheap, white, plain, not too ugly to look directly at. Sometimes I don't even need a bag. I could dump it directly in the big kitchen trash and wipe it out and put it back with no bag. Again, I don't agree that yuck things like garbage pails and litter boxes are the kind of accessories you want to draw attention to. If you can't hide them, next best is to blend them in so you don't really notice.