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Trash Bins, Waste Baskets & Garbage Cans
NYT House & Home Roundup 3.13.08

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This week's Personal Shopper takes on quirky designs for storing trash. We've included our favorites of the choices from The New York Times, here. Super-geeks might love the R2D2 can from Urban Outfitters, or the super-organized might covet the expensive-but-gorgeous TOP cans designed by Konstantin Grcic for Authentics. More of our favorites after the jump...

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This year's limited color run of the VP24 is purple!

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Recycled tin trash cans.

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Clothespin Can.

For the scoop on all the cans, see Personal Shopper: Waste Management Gets Witty from The New York Times.

Comments (2)

Any ideas on how to keep garbage cans odor-free? I use Simple Human Odor Absorbers and I clean my trashcan after I throw out the trash but the smell is still there!

posted by grtdrg on 2008-03-13 17:41:43
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I have been on the hunt for a perfect slide out undercounter, trash can that can house both my trash and my recyclables. Because lets face it, if you are like me your glass, plastic and everything else that gets sorted ends up sitting out somewhere and it looks unsightly. My other request was that these trash cans have lids, separate lids. I can only imagine how smelly my cabinet would become if they didn't. I swear I surfed the web for hours, and somehow found a source in germany. www.trashcan24.com I am overjoyed at my options that europeans typically have. Their approach to garbage sorting is so far beyond ours. Enjoy the site. And if you do the math, I found that it actually came out quite comparable to products found in a Hafele catalog.

posted by sugar rae on 2008-03-14 14:00:06
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