Brabantia Bo Touch Bin review

A 36-liter steel bin with no pedal. You press the lid panel and it opens. Brabantia guarantees it for ten years, which is the longest published guarantee among the mainstream brands we looked at, and it suits anyone who has already replaced two cans at the pedal.

A note on the name, because it causes confusion: Brabantia's Bo range is a touch bin, not a step-on bin. If you specifically want a foot pedal from Brabantia you are looking at a different range. That distinction is the whole point of this review, and it is the thing most buyers do not realize until the box is open — so we have led with it rather than buried it.

#	Product	Best for	Price
01	Brabantia Bo Touch Bin, 36 LA touch-open bin with a ten-year guarantee and a removable inner bucket, built to sit flat against a wall.	Best warranty	Check price on Amazon #ad How we make money

Brabantia does not publish internal dimensions for the Bo on its product pages, so we cannot tell you whether a specific third-party liner will fit properly. That is a real mark against it for the sizing-focused buyer, and it is worth saying plainly rather than estimating a figure. Brabantia does sell its own correctly-sized bin liners by code, which is the straightforward answer.

On a step can, the pedal linkage carries every single use — tens of thousands of cycles over a can's life — and it is the part that fails. A touch lid has no linkage at all. You press the panel, a simple latch releases, the lid swings on its hinge. There is dramatically less to go wrong, and that is a large part of how Brabantia can put a ten-year number on it.

The other part is the construction. Adjustable non-skid feet mean the bin sits level on an uneven floor rather than rocking, which is what loosens fixings over years. The inner bucket lifts straight out, so a leak is contained in a part you can carry to a tap rather than soaking into the pedal channel — which, on a step can, is the commonest cause of both a smell and a stiff mechanism.

If you are weighing this against a pedal can, our step can roundup lays out the published cycle ratings side by side, and the direct comparison with simplehuman is here.

It is not hands-free, and that is a genuine downgrade. The whole reason pedal cans dominate this category is that your hands are usually full, wet or dirty at the moment you need the bin open. A touch lid means putting a hand — often the back of a wrist, in practice — onto the top of the bin. Ten-year guarantee or not, you will notice this every time you handle raw meat. If hands-free matters to you, this is the wrong bin and no amount of build quality changes that. Touchless options · pedal options.

Thirty-six liters is small for an American kitchen. It is about 9.5 gallons against the 13-gallon default, so if you currently fill a 13-gallon can every two days this bin will need emptying every day and a bit. That is not necessarily bad — a smaller bin emptied more often smells less — but it is a change of habit, not a like-for-like replacement. Size chart.

Bag sizing is awkward outside Brabantia's own liners. With no published internal dimensions and a non-standard capacity, a US 13-gallon bag is oversized and a smaller bag may not reach. Brabantia's coded liners solve it, at Brabantia's prices. The general version of this problem.

And read the guarantee terms. A ten-year guarantee is genuinely valuable, but guarantees cover manufacturing defects rather than wear, and the practical value depends on the claims process in your country. It is a strong signal about expected life; treat it as that rather than as a decade of free replacements.