I really, really wanted to love it. I found that the compactor really is not durable or heavy duty, the 'heavy duty' special bags that it uses tear easily and it's almost impossible to pull a truly full compacted bag out of the can without tearing the entire plastic tie/string through the bag. After 6 months of wrestling with it to get a full bag of trash out of it at every change, having to half shimmy the top into another fresh garbage bag (from day 1). the lid spring mechanism in the top just popped out and rendered the lid useless... unless I was okay with leaving it open all the time because it never closed right again. Quite a disappointment.