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Tubelor trash can utilizes, conceals the standard plastic bag

By squirrelbait - January 31, 2008

in Object Culture

On the occasions you might forget your tote or other not-a-plastic-bag bag, a polyethylene plastic bag or two can make its way into your home. Ideaco's Tubelor trash can utilizes them to collect trash as opposed to the whole pile ending up in the trash. The two-part design seamlessly hides the unsightly folded-over handle area and comes in a variety of colors to blend into any environment. Tubelor has recently received a 2008 iF product design award.

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mrg

16 years ago

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Its an idea but the bag is still gonna end up in the landfill and now what ever is inside the plastic bag will never ever have a chance to degrade into the soil.. the plastic bag must die :)
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Alex Chechs

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I hate to say this but Philipe Starck designed the same thing for Target in 200. I should know, I still have mine.
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Carla

16 years ago

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This is a simple, yet really great design.
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Byte

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here in italy plastic bags have always been used as trash container, mostly because here those brown paper bags are not used (the reason is still a mystery to me). anyway, the design of the bin is very functional ;)
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Sean O'Brien

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This is a crappy rip off of a Starck designed trash can Target produced in 2002. Starck's series has sharp edges and individual facets painstakingly added to the CAD model one at a time. Here's a picture:

http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4571/1196/1600/2002wastebasket.jpg

and another piece from the series that shows more detail:

http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4571/1196/1600/2002soap_dish_nail_brush.jpg

This knock-off pales in contrast.
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