This unit met all of our criteria for style, size, finish, ease of use. There is no lid which is not a problem as the previous basket had one that was open 95 of the time anyway so we decided to try lidless. Not sure of the charcoal filter as yet—use will tell on this feature, but we never needed smell control before so it’s probably moot anyway. It should be much easier to clean and keep clean because of the design.