StashCan, Kitchen Trash Can With Built-in Bag Storage, Hits quirky’s Online Store

New York, NY, November 3, 2009 — Today marks the official release of the StashCan – a community developed, kitchen trash can designed to ease everyday kitchen hassle and minimize mess. The StashCan accomplishes this through its built in storage compartment that holds a supply of trash bags. No more hassle with drippy bags, and time consuming trash removal. The StashCan makes your trash routine far simpler, cleaner, and speedier. (Oh, and it looks pretty too!)

It’s simple, just step on StashCan’s foot pedal to open the lid to dispose of your garbage. Once your trash is full, open the stainless steel rimmed top and remove your full trash bag. You can also pull out the removable, lightweight, plastic liner for easy cleaning when necessary.

Replacing the liner with a new, unused trash bag is simple due to the bag storage unit located at the top, rear of the can. Never search around your kitchen for trash bags again! This separate trash bag compartment provides easy access to new bags without compromising the size of the trash can – simply pull upward on the next available bag in the roll or stack.
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The ergonomic design fits standard 28-31 gallon kitchen trash bags. The StashCan’s total dimensions (including the bag storage unit in the back) are 12″x 32″x 19″. You may want to find another chore to assign to your “honey” – the StashCan makes trash removal an easy one! NOTE: trash bags not included.

StashCan is the seventeenth product designed and developed by the quirky community since quirky’s launch on June 2nd. quirky gives everyone the chance to get product ideas out of their heads and onto shelves. Each week quirky’s community collaborates to select and produce one new product idea. This week ends the development of the StashCan and it is now available for sale at quirky’s online store for $54.00.

You might remember the first socially developed product that has shipped a few weeks ago the Split Stick, a double-sided USB drive as well as three other products that have hit threshold and are being manufactured now. These include the DigiDude, a portable camera tripod and keychain, the Scratch-n-Scroll , a mousepad with a writing surface and the PowerCurl, a cord wrap for Apple’s MagSafe power adapter.

quirky engages participants to collaborate in every aspect of product creation – from ideation, design, naming, manufacturing, marketing, right on through to sales. Anyone can participate on quirky.com either by submitting their own product idea for $99, or by voting, rating, and influencing other people’s product ideas. Cooler still, 30¢ of every dollar generated from the sale of a quirky product goes back to these influencers.

Every week users post ideas on quirky to be rated by the quirky community. The community surveys the submissions during the 7-day evaluation period and selects one product to move forward to product development. quirky’s community then begins weighing in on everything from naming to logo selection to packaging through to prototype.

The final product becomes available for pre-sale at the quirky online store (quirky.com/products). Once the product hits its pre-sale threshold, credit cards are charged, and the product goes into production and delivery. At this point, 30¢ of every dollar made from the sale of these products goes back to the community. “Community” in this case covers both the ideator as well as all people who voted, commented, and rated the project idea along the way.

For more information about StashCan, quirky, or to request an interview with Ben Kaufman, quirky’s founder, contact Tiffany Markofsky at tiffany@27threats.com / 917.975.3811.