Infrared

Infrared trash cans are ideal for a doctor’s office. Their main selling point is that you don’t have to touch any part of the trash can – you just hover your hand a few inches over the lid and it opens automatically. When dealing with needles, band-aids, and the like, you want to be as far from the disease they potentially carry as possible, so an infra-red trashcan is the way to go.

Also, these are good for the home of someone on the neurotic side, the type of person who doesn’t like to be anywhere near his/her trash.