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Tubelor Trashcans Now Available in the U.S.

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Tubelor Trash Cans
made the blog-rounds earlier this year after they won the 2008 iF product design award — but they were not yet available for purchase in the United States. Now, after spotting them at the Gift Fair, we know these cans that allow you to attractively reuse plastic bags are available online from MollaSpace. They've even launched a new design that is slightly larger, Tubleor Homme...

 
 

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Tubelor comes in six colors and sells for $41.

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Tubelor Homme comes in four colors and has a matte finish. They sell for $43.

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Wow I really love those. $43 is steep for a trash can but I love that you can't see the bag. I currently re-use grocery bags for trash anyway.

posted by Griffin on August 29th 2008 at 5:03am
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I'd like it more with a lid...who wants to look at/smell trash? Might be good for recycleables but still

posted by Enamorada on August 29th 2008 at 5:03am
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A few years ago Philippe Starck made a trashcan almost exactly like that for Target.

posted by chrimmons on August 29th 2008 at 5:06am
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I love the fact they want you to buy special bags for it.

My old grocery bags work just fine.

posted by Melissa82 on August 29th 2008 at 5:08am
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I would love it with a top too. I would want to use it for my bathrooms and bedroom but my dogs love getting into the little trash cans so lids are a necessity!

posted by Monica on August 29th 2008 at 5:14am
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I guess I was thinking differently about these cans. I wouldn’t use them in the kitchen, but perhaps in the bath, bedroom or living room, where the worst trash would be tissues and the like. They seem a bit small for kitchen use or recyclables use.

I agree: kitchen trash should have a lid.

posted by hmr on August 29th 2008 at 5:15am
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sigh. i love it, but won't spent that much.

posted by closertotheocean on August 29th 2008 at 5:25am
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hey, they've been selling these on the plastica site for a year:

http://www.plasticashop.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=P&Product_Code=TUBELOR&Category_Code=NS

i was going to buy one for the bathroom but i've yet to get over spending $40 on a bathroom trash can...especially since i just spent $100 on my kitchen recycling unit:

http://www.organize.com/3-compartment-recycling-bin.html?Prod_ID=3-compartment-recycling-bin&qid=

posted by kdkaboom on August 29th 2008 at 5:27am
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Yes, I bought one from Plastica about a year ago!

posted by Aulaire on August 29th 2008 at 5:32am
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I think my golden would probably get his head stuck in this and then walk around banging into things.

posted by jen_g on August 29th 2008 at 6:28am
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Wow talk about alot of surface area to clean and a whole lot of material to make a small trash bin. Imagine sliding the top up and over some mucky garbage, yuk.

posted by peachpie on August 29th 2008 at 7:43am
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