Automatic bathroom wastebasket

Wastebasket opens without having to touch it – suitable for people with disabilities

Description
The wastebasket has an infrared motion detector that detects movement immediately above it, causing the wastebasket to open; after a few seconds it closes again.

Idea
The user’s

Paid for by
The user

Editors comments
Automatic wastebasket (Touchless Automatic Trash Can) is sold by
trashcansunlimited.com/products.html (last checked May 2011)

Tip is dated from 2009

Categories for this tip
carrying, moving and handling objects » opening/closing, household tasks » preparing meals, housing » bathroom, kitchen, self care » toileting, Tips and tricks from people with Low tetraplegia with partly function in arms/hands (C7- Th1, ASIA A, B).

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