Whatever I could crumple and throw into the front passenger footwell of my battered, clanking Subaru Crosstrek, I would. But then I traded in my garbage can of a car for a shiny, clean Subaru Crosstrek that still had that new-car smell.
Enter: the car garbage can. The carbage can? I researched nearly a dozen options before I finally landed on the Hotor car trash can. So when the Hotor finally arrived, I was pleasantly surprised by a well-constructed, thoughtfully designed receptacle.
With its waterproof vinyl interior and zippered lid, this trash can reminds me a lot of an insulated lunch bag —if lunch bags had an opening at the top of the lid covered by rubber flaps and you crammed garbage into them. These easy-to-clean flaps keep trash tamped down and out of sight while still giving you enough access to toss your garbage without needing to futz with the zipper.
I chose to thread the strap around the lid of my center console so that the trash can hangs directly behind the console in the back seat, but this method includes closing the lid on the strap, and that might make the console harder but not impossible to close.
You can try to encircle the whole console if you want to avoid closing the lid on the strap, but supervising editor Joshua Lyon, who also tested the Hotor in his subcompact car, found that the straps slid loose when he tried that method.
