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13-gallon step can · Red Dot Best of the Best 2025

A trash can that opens like a door.

The front doors swing open, so a full bag slides straight out at waist height. You never lift it again.

Add to cart, $250 ★ 4.97 · 186 reviews

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The difference

Every other trash can makes you lift.

A full 13-gallon bag weighs what it weighs. What changes is the direction you have to move it: up and over a rim, or straight out the front.

  • Other trash cans
  • Pulli
Lifting a full bag out of a conventional can with the biceps highlighted, beside the same job done with a Pulli The same comparison with the lower back highlighted The same comparison with both the arm and the lower back highlighted
  1. 01

    Your biceps take the weight.

    Holding a full bag with your arms out in front of you is the weakest position they work in. Pulling it forward keeps the load low and close.

  2. 02

    Your lower back takes the bend.

    Reaching down into the can loads your lumbar spine before the lift starts. The front doors put the bag at waist height instead.

  3. 03

    Then both work at once.

    Clearing the rim asks your arms and back to fight the same weight together, at the worst angle for each. Sliding it out asks neither.

What we measured

Where the effort goes.

The same three points, measured. We took one full bag out of a conventional top-lift can and out of a Pulli, and compared the load each time.

Peak bicep load

−84%

Elbow flexion torque, or the force your biceps hold the weight with.

Conventional
Pulli

Lower-back strain

−67%

Lumbar flexion, or how far forward your lower back has to bend.

Conventional
Pulli

Lifting force

−73%

The total force needed once the load moves horizontally instead of vertically.

Conventional
Pulli

Comparative biomechanical analysis. Full 13-gallon bag, conventional top-lift can against Pulli front-opening doors.

The mechanism

Two doors, one latch, and a lid that still seals.

A Pulli Bin shown closed, and beside it the same bin with both front doors swung fully open
  • Latch

    The doors stay locked shut under a full load. Lifting the lid releases them.

  • Travel

    Both doors swing clear of the opening, so the bag does not catch on a corner.

  • Tested

    175,000 open-and-close cycles, or about 24 years of opening it twenty times a day.

Details

The parts you don't think about.

Drip collection

If a bag leaks, it stays in the base.

The base is sealed, so anything that escapes the liner collects there instead of running under your cabinets. It lifts out to be rinsed.

Cleaning

You can reach every corner.

The inside is smooth, and with the doors open you can get a cloth to all of it without reaching down into the can.

How it works

Taking a full bag out.

Fill

Standard 13-gallon bags, held by a rim that keeps the liner out of sight.

Lift the lid

One motion releases both front doors. They swing wide and stay there.

Pull

The bag slides out forward at waist height.

The honest part

$250 is a lot for a trash can.

Here is what the money buys, and how long you have to change your mind.

175,000

Door cycles tested

5 years

Limited warranty

60 days

To send it back

4.97

186 verified reviews

Appliance-grade stainless with an anti-fingerprint coating. A latch cycled 175,000 times before it shipped. A patent-pending door design that won Red Dot Best of the Best and a Good Design Award in 2025.

Price $250.00
Across the warranty period $50.00 / year
Or with Shop Pay $22.56 / month
If you don't like it Send it back, 60 days
4.97 average · 186 verified reviews

Most people hesitate first.

★★★★★

"I honestly felt guilty paying 200+ for a trash can… but this product has met every benchmark they promised. Extremely easy to put a new bag in. Super easy to remove even if it was overfull. Honestly wish I'd purchased one three trash cans ago."

Roxanne M.Verified
★★★★★

"I hesitated to spend what this bin costs but it is worth every penny. I had no idea how irritating getting the bag out of my old one was becoming. Extremely high quality. Seems silly, but it makes my day easier."

Kati F.Verified
★★★★★

"Is it wrong to love a trash can? Not if it's a Pulli. Quiet and capable, good looking, thoughtfully designed, carefully built, innovative. What's not to love?"

Brian W.Verified
Recognition

Judged by people who look at products all day.

Red Dot winner, Best of the Best

Red Dot Award: Product Design 2025

Best of the Best, the competition's top distinction.

Good Design Award 2025

The Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design, with Metropolitan Arts Press.

Kickstarter Project We Love

Kickstarter Project We Love

Funded by backers before it went on sale.

Specifications

It fits where the old one was.

Front and side elevations of the Pulli Bin: 26 and one eighth inches high, 17 and one eighth inches wide, 14 and one quarter inches deep The Pulli Bin shown to scale beside figures of a 5 foot 4 and a 5 foot 9 person
Capacity13 gallons / 50 litres
Height26 ⅛ in
Width17 ⅛ in
Depth14 ¼ in
BodyAppliance-grade stainless, anti-fingerprint coating
OpeningWide foot pedal; front doors released by the lid
LinersStandard 13-gallon bags
Door cycles tested175,000
Warranty5-year limited
StatusPatent pending
Pulli Bin Step · 13 gallon · Stainless

Take the trash out without thinking about it.

Add to cart, $250 ★ 4.97 · 186 reviews

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