A pedal keeps hands off the lid, which is the whole argument for a step bin in a kitchen. This one is brushed stainless steel with plastic accents, shaped as a smooth cylinder with a rounded top, and it stands 19.25 inches high on an 18 by 14 inch footprint.
The foot pedal is built into the base rather than clipped on, so the lid rises from a press of the toe while both hands stay on whatever is being scraped in. That counts most at a cutting board or beside a bathroom sink, where touching a lid by hand means washing up again straight afterwards.
Brushed stainless steel forms the body, with durable plastic accents where the mechanism needs them. The brushed grain scatters light instead of mirroring the room, which keeps fingerprints and water spots from reading as sharply as they would on a polished surface, and a cloth pass restores the finish in seconds.
A cylindrical body has no corners, which means no seams for residue to settle into and no sharp edge to catch a shin in a narrow galley. The rounded lid continues that line, and the whole silhouette reads as a fixture in modern, minimalist, and contemporary rooms where a squared plastic can would look like an afterthought.
Six-piece black magnet set of four hinges and two handles that gives a steel garage door carriage-house detailing.
Six forest green fabric cubes with grommet pulls, each 11 inches square for standard cube shelving.
