2023
NeatNest is a 16-gallon trash bin that encourages an easy cleaning process for your kitchen trash bin, helping you maintain a clean and odor free area.
Keeping the trash bin clean is not an easy task, and many people decide it's not worth the hassle. This leads to bad odor in the kitchen, where food is made, and overall an unsanitary area. This is why NeatNest seamlessly integrates convenience and cleanliness with its design.
Each day, we generate waste that finds its way into trash bins for disposal.
Despite the frequent use of trash bins throughout the day, households often face challenges associated with the disposal of trash and maintenance of the trash bins.
Existing products are already looking to find solutions to some of these problems. Some of the current market solutions are:
However, there’s still gaps within these struggles:
Crumbs that fall through the gaps between the bag and the walls, drips and leaks that happen when the trash bag breaks, and residue buildup, are all ways that the bottom of the trash bin can get dirty.
Also, putting the trash bag on and taking it out of the trash bin is sometimes hard because the bag is tightly wrapped around the rim, making it hard to pull it up.
Through first-person experience exercises, key struggles were discovered:
With existing trash bins, people need to get creative in order to keep their bins sanitized.
Some techniques they currently use to clean their trash cans are:
From these insights, my target user is people who:
• Have a household with a kitchen area
• Want to maintain a sanitized and odor free area
• Prefer tall trash bins over the small countertop ones
• Want their kitchen to have seamless products while creating visual identity
How NeatNest came to be...
After initial brainstorming, sketched different solutions for easier cleaning and for simplifying the process of placing and taking off the plastic bag:
Then chose the top 3 features:
Followed by making a quick mockup to see how each feature would work within the trash bin.
And did form variations in CAD to analyze each design three-dimensionally.
3D printed a scale model.
The separate parts of the bin:
The lid is attached to the rim and these lift off the main body of the trash bin. And then there’s the tray that also comes out.
The lid opens going up and then back, and lays behind the rim.
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