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kiki
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IKEA small Filur container might be the best IKEA product ever produced. Why?

- it's ridiculously compact for its volume
- it fits the standard grocery bag just perfectly allowing you to reuse old grocery bags as trash bags
- when closed, it creates almost airtight seal without using any gaskets
- it's absolutely overbuilt and ridiculously strong

Why is it so strong? You see, the wall thickness along doesn't matter, but the wall thickness to volume ratio does. If you decide to build a house with the same wall thickness out of same material, it would collapse under it's own weight.

But the wall thickness to volume ratio of this very container allows it to be possibly the strongest IKEA product ever. As a matter of fact, the walls could be three times thinner also rendering the container perfectly usable. Also, this kind of plastic bends but doesn't break. Also, the lid alone has 38 FUCKING stiffening ribs.

Also I like the color and the office vibe the whole thing radiates.

Totally get your hands on one. You won't regret it.

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  • 8
    3y
    For some reason my mother refuses to buy any rubbish bin that isn't rot grey, the current one also has worrying discolorations that I can only hope come from the plastic aging. She is right in that this way you can't tell when it's dirty, because it always looks dirty.
  • 0
    3y
    You're welcome
  • 1
    3y
    Have it and can agree on every point made!
  • 3
    3y
    @homo-lorens kind of like everything in blade runner looks dirty.

    We'll just call it NEO-post modernism.
  • 1
    3y
    Mycurrent trash bin is over 10 years old and nothing broke yet.
  • 1
    3y
    To me the only downside to this trashbin is that it is pretty low, so you have to bend every time to throw stuff away or to get the bag
  • 1
    3y
    At the beginning of the reading I was sure it was metaphor about software product designs... Now I don't have it clear :/
  • 2
    3y
    I love IKEA. But, speaking of trash bins, I just bought 2 from a Norwegian company called Komprimo. The name of the bin is Frank. It puts pressure to compress the trash to make it take less space. (70% less space according to their advertisement). I use it for soft plastic. I think it is very cool to not have to take the plastic waste to the recycling station every other day.

    (The development connection may be clearer when we talk space optimization 🙂)
  • 1
    3y
    @mossesandberg that’s pretty cool! Is it electronic or fully mechanical?
  • 0
    3y
    When changing the bag it's easy to break the lid, that what happen with the one I have.
  • 0
    3y
    @kiki mechanical
  • 1
    3y
    Can you take cover in it to survive a nuclear explosion?
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