I’ve been developing a trash can product meant to eliminate the use of plastic trash can liners.

The trash can is collapsible and can be used sans liner and fit in a dishwasher for cleaning. Not only is it environmental, but it would save consumers hundreds of dollars in trash bags per year.

Is this something you would consider using? What is your reaction to putting a trash can in the dishwasher (assuming it fits alongside dishes for your regular wash)?

  • Weird_Brush2527@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    You can literally handwash any trashcan if someone doesn’t want to use liners.

    People don’t want to put their TRASHcan into the dishwasher.

  • ubertodev@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Lol imagine putting your baby bottles or your spoons next to the raw chicken juice that was rotting for 3 days. Save Hundreds a year.? $15 for 120 plastic bags. that will last year at least 1 year. Who cares about saving the planet when you’re putting garbage inside the cleanest place in your kitchen and dying from bacteria

  • Level_Chapter9105@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Bin bags keep the trash contained from the house right up till the point they’re in the back of the bin truck. Loose trash ends up flying everywhere when bins are collected. I wouldn’t want to tip loose rubbish straight into the bin. They help hide smells and stop critters going into bins, too.

    Also, people aren’t going to want bin juice in their dishwasher, good lord.

    I think a collapsible, washable food compost bin (the little countertop ones) would be ok. Potential?

  • CriticalNovel22@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    1. It sounds like a tiny bin.

    2. It sounds like it could leak.

    3. It sounds disgusting to put it with the dishes.

    4. It sounds like you want people to dump exposed waste into their bigger bins. It will smell more and be less hygienic.

    5. It sounds like you want to make a product that would be dirtier than the current product.

    6. It sounds like when you fold it, all the rotting gunk inside will leak/be squeezed out onto the the floor/over people’s feet.

    7. The cost of a high intensity/single item dishwasher (and the extra cleaning tablet) run will negate at least part of any theoretical savings. It might actually be more expensive.

    8. It sounds like something that would have to be done weekly to prevent it stinking the place out with rotting food stuck on the sides.

    9. All in all, it sounds more hassle, more disgusting, more expense, more unhygienic, and less environmentally friendly than a regular bin.