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not necessarily. If you have kids in the car, a trash can will be handy. I could certainly use one.

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So bring a trash bag or take it with you like everyone else does already?

That has its tradeoffs.

The product has value, and solves the problem at hand in a unique way.

Or, you know, you could take trash with you every time you leave the car like normal human beings who don't hoard garbage.

Before you leave the car, do you just leave your trash on the seat or something? Certainly a bag or receptacle is desirable for food waste at the very minimum, and you don't want to gunk up your cupholders or door pockets with such things.

Being in the car for a few hours with an exposed banana peel isn't the greatest, regardless of what happens to it at the destination.

I don't have kids, but I can imagine how having my hands full my stuff, plus my kids' stuff, plus trying to have a hand to drag them along so they don't run out in traffic, could make it difficult to be tidy 100% of the time.

So when you're in the car driving, you don't have your hands full enough to pick up the trash in put it in this magical device? No one is saying be 100% tidy, but why do we need empty another trash, when you can just pick up after you get the kids secured somewhere.

Or, you know, you could do what works for you every time you leave the car unlike pedantic human beings who want to get all up in folks' business about how they handle their garbage.

I mean, yeesh, people have their reasons for having a trash can in the car. I'm a take-your-shit-with-you kind of guy myself, but I don't have kids and I don't eat in the car. Sure, that makes me a superior human being, but I don't rub it in people's faces.

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