The best Toter trash cans, size by size

Buy the Toter Heavy Duty Two-Wheel Cart in 64 gallons. It holds a normal household's week, it is the cart size most American municipal haulers are already equipped to lift, and it carries Toter's 10-year warranty. Go to 96 gallons only if you genuinely generate more than 64 gallons between collections, and drop to 48 or 32 if the cart has to be steered up a slope or through a side gate. If you live where bears do, the cart is not the product you need first - start here.

#	Product	Best for	Price
01	Toter Heavy Duty Two-Wheel Trash Cart, 64 GallonThe cart most municipalities issue, sold retail: rotationally molded, ten-year warranty, and a lid hinged to the body.	Best outdoor cart overall	$177.25 · View on Amazon $186.95 · 5% off · Price as of October 16, 2026.  #ad How we make money
02	Toter Heavy Duty Two-Wheel Trash Cart, 96 GallonThe 96-gallon cart: the biggest size most automated collection trucks will lift, for households that fill a 64 every week.	Best large capacity	$259.00 · View on Amazon $289.00 · 10% off · Price as of October 16, 2026.  #ad How we make money
03	Toter Heavy Duty Two-Wheel Trash Cart, 48 GallonThe 48-gallon Toter: municipal construction and a ten-year warranty, in the size most households actually fill in a week.	Best mid-size cart	$172.80 · View on Amazon Price as of October 16, 2026.  #ad How we make money
04	Toter Heavy Duty Two-Wheel Trash Cart, 32 GallonThe 32-gallon Toter, for a small household, a tight side return, or anyone who cannot manage a 64 when it is full.	Best small outdoor cart	$144.69 · View on Amazon Price as of October 16, 2026.  #ad How we make money

Toter is the brand people buy after a cheaper cart has already failed on them, and the failure is always the same: the lid separates, the rim cracks, or the axle tears out of the body. Toter's answer is to mold the body in one piece with a reinforced rim and a molded-in axle, then warrant the result for ten years. The sizes exist to match collection systems, not to upsell you.

This is the order of operations most people get backwards. An automated or semi-automated collection truck grabs a cart by a standardized rim profile at a standardized height, and 64 and 96 gallons are the two sizes that system is built around. A 32-gallon Toter is a superb cart, but on a street with fully automated collection it may simply not be picked up.

If you are weighing the two big sizes against each other specifically, that is its own decision and we gave it its own page. The short version: a full 96 is genuinely hard to steer, and on a sloped driveway the 64 is the better cart even for a large household.

A warranty on an outdoor cart is a claim about three parts: the body, the lid hinge and the axle. Toter builds the body by advanced rotational molding, which produces a seamless wall of even thickness rather than two halves joined together, and states a 15 to 20 year service life for its two-wheel carts alongside the 10-year warranty. The lid is attached and hinged rather than resting on the rim, and the axle is molded into the body rather than bolted through it.

• The rim is the part that usually fails. Toter reinforces it - the Rugged Rim on the 64 - because that is where an automated truck grabs the cart and where a cheap cart cracks first.
• A bottom wear strip is not a detail. Carts get dragged. A molded wear strip is the difference between a cart that wears a hole in its base and one that does not.
• The polyethylene is up to 50% recycled content on the 48-gallon cart, which Toter states without any reduction in the warranty term.
• Quiet-Cap wheels matter at 6am. A cart dragged down a concrete driveway at collection time is the loudest thing on the street.

The honest comparison is against Rubbermaid, which sells a perfectly good resin cart for a lot less money. We put the two brands head to head in Rubbermaid vs Toter - the summary is that Rubbermaid is the right buy for a garage or a second can, and Toter is the right buy for the cart that lives at the curb.

The two carts that cover almost everybody: the standard 64, and the 96 for a household that genuinely fills one.

Best outdoor cart overall

Toter Heavy Duty Two-Wheel Trash Cart, 64 Gallon

The cart most municipalities issue, sold retail: rotationally molded, ten-year warranty, and a lid hinged to the body.

$177.25 · View on Amazon

$186.95 · 5% off · Price as of October 16, 2026.  #ad How we make money

Best large capacity

Toter Heavy Duty Two-Wheel Trash Cart, 96 Gallon

The 96-gallon cart: the biggest size most automated collection trucks will lift, for households that fill a 64 every week.

$259.00 · View on Amazon

$289.00 · 10% off · Price as of October 16, 2026.  #ad How we make money

Toter's Bear Tough carts take the standard cart and add a double-wall rotationally molded lid, quarter-inch steel U-bolt hinges and a bear-resistant lock. Toter states they are IGBC certified and hold a Three Star rating from Living with Wildlife, the highest that program awards. The warranty drops to three years, which tells you something about how hard those parts get worked. We have left them off the ranked list for a plain reason: they are sold through dealers and municipal contracts rather than retail, so there is no listing we can send you to. If you need a bear-resistant container today, the options you can actually buy are here.

The reason a certified cart in 64 gallons beats a specialty container is collection: 64 is the size your hauler already lifts, so the certification does not cost you your service. That is the argument for asking your hauler or municipality about Bear Tough carts rather than buying a container nobody will empty. Bear-resistant vs bear-proof, explained.

We have not put these carts behind a truck. What we compared is Toter's published specification for each size - construction method, rim and axle design, wheel type, recycled content, warranty term and stated service life - and then ranked on the single question that decides whether an outdoor cart was a good buy: will the thing still be whole in five winters. Methodology, disclosure.

The 64 leads because it is the size the collection system is built around. The 96 is second because capacity genuinely solves a problem for large households even though it is harder to steer. The 48 and 32 rank below them on availability of collection rather than on build quality - every one of the four is the same cart in a different size, so the ranking is really a ranking of household fit.