Until I got this bin, we had ugly crates sitting in the basement stairway for our recycling. I am a recycling die-hard, my family goes along; but we all hated the stairway bins - inconvenient and unsightly. Now we have this slim three-compartment bin right in our kitchen, and it's attractive and highly functional. One bin is for our curbside recyclables; one is split between stretchy plastic bag recycling and plastic cap recycling (not curbside items where we live; we take them to another facility); and one is for landfill items. We don't need one for compost because we take it out every day  to keep odor down, so a compost compartment would be too big... All in all this bin is the best!