the design like it is still great, so we had purchased the collector for our kitchen waste. The cover mechanism works fine. BUT: the inner waste container extends only until the beginning of the arched section. One can not recognize when you throw, if you are not very closely to see to that the container is already full. At the top of the domed vessel, the waste continues to collect, looks as if everything ok. If amn then allerdsings want to empty the bucket, you have to take the complete housing high (difficult). Bad case: the garbage that has accumulated in the upper part (see above) falls on the ground, does not remain in the bucket, because the inner vessel is quickly crowded. So: as a design piece for Öiebhaber that do not have a lot of trash and look for all uses of meticulously in the lid and ready for emptying often are ok, everyone else should find another trash container