{"id":25491,"date":"2015-12-15T02:00:40","date_gmt":"2015-12-15T09:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=25491"},"modified":"2015-12-01T18:34:01","modified_gmt":"2015-12-02T01:34:01","slug":"rubbermaid-45-quart-dual-action-wastebasket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/rubbermaid-45-quart-dual-action-wastebasket\/","title":{"rendered":"Rubbermaid 45-Quart Dual-Action Wastebasket"},"content":{"rendered":"

I bought this seven years ago merely because I needed a covered wastebasket for my kitchen. I was unaware of the cleverness of the tilt-top mechanism it employed. But a day later I marveled at its niftiness. It has these advantages over the old foot-pedal style of kitchen garbage pail:<\/p>\n

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  1. Opening the lid requires no skill, unlike a foot-pedal, which is a smaller and more distant target.<\/li>\n
  2. Opening the lid places ones hand inside the top of the bucket, making it impossible for a fluttery item like a piece of paper towel to drift off-target after it has been released.<\/li>\n
  3. The lid closes itself noiselessly, unlike the crash of a foot-pedal cans.<\/li>\n
  4. The lid stays open once raised to its fully upright and locked position. (The back edge of the can’s lid can must be 3\/4 inch away from the wall for this to work. Rubbermaid should stress this out-spacing in its instruction leaflet, and include a picture, because some Amazon reviewers appear unaware of this quirk. Maybe the can should include a swing-up-and-lock spacer to keep the back sufficiently clear of the wall \u2014 the customer could fold it down out of the way if he doesn’t intend to fill the can beyond \u00be full.) <\/li>\n
  5. The lid’s greater height means cats & dogs are less likely to nose around its rim.<\/li>\n
  6. Clean-up is simpler, primarily because of the lid’s removability.<\/li>\n
  7. Its plastic construction and simpler mechanics mean there’s no chance of it rusting or needing lubrication.<\/li>\n
  8. It is the exact shape of a grocery store’s large paper bag. I put my bag inside a plastic grocery bag and use its handles to lift it out.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Lid swings in for quick disposal or lifts up for larger disposal items<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25491"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25491"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25493,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25491\/revisions\/25493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}