Patent ID: 8490813

Claim:
A waste container comprising: one or more container side walls; a container partition having a liner passing port, said container partition dividing said container into a waste chamber and a liner chamber, the liner chamber dimensioned to receive a plurality of sequentially linked liners, the container partition dimensioned to permit passage of at least one of the liners of the plurality of sequentially linked liners from the liner chamber to the waste chamber when the plurality of sequentially linked liners are received in the liner chamber; a canister housing provided within the liner chamber; a passageway for fluid communication between the waste chamber and the canister housing; and a canister provided within the canister housing and having a pressurized fluid, the canister including a fluid discharge nozzle that discharges the fluid through the passageway and into the waste chamber as a spray or mist, the fluid discharge nozzle activated by a motion-sensing circuit, wherein the motion-sensing circuit includes a movement sensor positioned proximate to the liner passing port in order to detect movement at or proximate to the liner passing port, and wherein the motion-sensing circuit includes first and second temporizers, the first temporizer operable to transmit a first digital signal upon detection of movement by the movement sensor, the second temporizer operable to transmit a second digital signal upon an additional detection of movement by the movement sensor within a predetermined timeframe, the discharge of the fluid thereby occurring after the transmission of the second digital signal.