About Lid & Liner
One product category, covered completely. Here is who writes it, who publishes it, and the specific gap it exists to fill.
By Ryder M. · Last reviewed September 27, 2026
What Lid & Liner is
Lid & Liner covers one product category and tries to cover it completely: trash cans. Kitchen cans, touchless cans, step cans, dual recycling cans, compost caddies, sizing and bag fit, odor control, and the outdoor cans that survive raccoons. That is the whole subject, and there is nothing else on the site.
At launch there are 61 pages here, all of them about trash cans. That is not a boast about volume — it is the strategy. Most of what is written about this category is one aisle of a general home or kitchen site, written once a year by someone who moves on to faucets next week. The specific questions people actually have about trash cans, like whether a 13-gallon bag genuinely fits a 13-gallon can, get asked constantly and answered almost nowhere.
So that is what this is for. The sizes and bags section is the part we would point at first: a size chart, real dimensions, and a bag-fit matrix compiled from manufacturer specifications that does not exist anywhere else we could find.
Why it exists
It started with the same irritation everyone has. Every “best trash can” article covers ten products and none of them tells you whether the bag will fit, how loud the lid is, or which part breaks first. They tell you about the finish.
Those three things — bag fit, lid noise, and the pedal linkage — are what people actually complain about after six months of ownership, and they are the axes every page on this site is organized around. Where a manufacturer publishes a figure that speaks to one of them, we cite it. Where they refuse to publish one, we say that too, because “the manufacturer does not publish this” is genuinely useful information when you are trying to work out whether a liner will fit.
Who writes it and who publishes it
Ryder M. is the owner and editor. He is the hands-on owner behind Magoo Media Group, which publishes this site. There is one author here — there is no editorial team, and you will not see “our editors” or “our team of experts” used on this site, because that would be a fabrication.
You will also not find a claimed certification, a years-in-industry figure, a lab, or a count of products tested. None of those exist, and inventing one is the fastest way to lose a reader who checks. What this site has instead is category focus, original compiled reference data, and an explicit statement of what we do and do not do on the methodology page.
Lid & Liner is published by Magoo Media Group.
How it makes money
Affiliate commission, and nothing else. There is no advertising, no paywall, no email gate and no sponsored content. When you buy something through a link here we may earn a commission from the retailer at no extra cost to you. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases.
We hold no relationship with any manufacturer named on this site, we receive no free products, and we accept no paid placements. Commission never determines a ranking. The full statement is on the affiliate disclosure page.
One consequence worth stating plainly: we do not print prices. Retail prices on these products change weekly and a stale number is worse than no number, so every buy link sends you to the current price rather than a figure we guessed at.
How to reach us
Email contact@lidandliner.com, or use the contact form.
If something on this site is wrong — a specification, a product that has been discontinued, a link that goes nowhere — please tell us. We will check it, correct it, and note the correction on the page where a reader could have acted on the error.