Wow, I can't believe I bought such an expensive trash can. Like, wow. It was worth it though. Having a beautiful and tidy place to store both trash and recyclables is a much better solution than we had before with the recyclables stacking up. I will say, the recycle bin is a little small if you need to recycle larger boxes and things like water gallon containers. But, it does actually give an incentive to empty it more often, which is probably not  bad.