Rubbermaid Commercial ProductsSLIM JIM Swing Lid for Use with 16/23 Gallon Vented Slim Jim Containers, Beige, for Kitchens/Classrooms/Offices/Back of House

I bought my 2 recycle cans first because I could not believe the lods were almost twice as much as the cans themselves. Finally gave in and bought these lids they snap on for a snug fit and hold the liner in place. Extremely durable very happy with the purchase. They open easily and also snap shut. Very minimal rounded on top so no water will puddle.

The rubbermaid slim jim trash bin was sturdy and really nice.... but I was surprised to see that this lid is cheaply made out of VERY thin plastic and does not open/close smoothly at all. One side "sticks" each time it opens, and I'm sure this will not last long. Unfortunate since the trash can is so nice. UPDATE: The first swing lid was missing a counter-weight rod so one side would not close. Now using replacement, which came promptly and with both weights. Still disappointed that the plastic is SO light and thin -- definitely not "commercial." The flaps close slowly and wimpy, and do not close snugly, which means odor will not be contained. The plastic is such that even water leaves a mark unless wiped, so in my busy kitchen, it will look filthy all the time. For a low volume household with "clean trash" I suppose this is a fine item. For a busy household that is tossing eggshells and leftovers (often with wet hands), you wouldn't want it. Probably will eventually replace (bad when you are thinking that already when it's been in use for a week). I was looking for commercial quality and well-built. Rubbermaid did not fit the bill with this lid. PS -- the Slim Jim trash can itself is high quality; the swing lid is (pun intended) TRASH.

So there seems to be a fair number of reviews that either fault or gloss over this flaw in quality control, well flaws actually. They are pretty easy to fix, but then again they're common and consistent and this IS a trash bin lid that cost as much as the bin it goes on. I have quite a few of these, trash and recycle pairs, so over a grand in trash cans and lids. I didn't buy them all at once but these are tanks and we live in a world these days where the world just gets delivered. Anyway... On most of the lids at least one of the weights has fallen out during shipping so one of the 2 lids closes and one does (or neither does) . so if it rattles around the weight has fallen out, you can sneak your fingers in there and finagle it back into place or take the lid apart and snap it back in, though it takes some effort either way. Once they are both in place it may or may not work smoothly, this gets into the 2nd QC issue, there is often a significant amount of excess slag left over from the molding process on both the housing and on the swings doors themselves either of which will cause the closing to be lazy or just get stuck outright. So you need to take a utility knife and trim away the extra bits so everything works smoothly. While certainly doable and not all that difficult, it is a not so cheap, very simple product from a reputable brand with only 5 parts (3 unique parts). But once you reset the weights and trim the slag, they're awesome, well as awesome a simple trash lid gets I guess.I think it's important to fault this product for this, the end user shouldn't have to do this kind of nonsense and this is a commercial product, so me who is a trashcan power user, comparatively, who has bought more than a dozen of these in as many years, might deal with this when dealing with a couple lids at at time, I'd hate to think what happens when a company buys 100 of these at a time or more, though I suppose reality is that some guy like me using a copy machine in an office and has an OCD moment is the one who actually fixes that one trash can that I am interacting with at that particular time, not building services who carted them around the building.Anyway, I think probably every one of these lids has had either one or both of these issues to varying degrees, and probably, in all honesty deserves more than a single star reduction, I mean it is an almost universal problem from a pretty simple product. Again from a reputable brand with a not so cheap price tag. Once fixed though the lids open for fairly light items and snap closed again, and the Slim Jim cans themselves are kind of notoriously indestructible.

2 lids and 2 strikes. I feel bad about the shipping (costs and resources, i.e. not "green") back and forth on this and I'm not giving it a third try.The first lid came via FedEx and was pretty seriously damaged. There was a big crack on one side, the lid was scuffed in a couple places, and it had one of the metal weight bars (which pulls the lid closed) loose in the box... with a couple "shards" of plastic loose in the box as well. This is where Amazon is awesome, because returns for things like this are so easy.I chose to exchange the lid because I figured that shipping damage must be a fluke. The replacement lid arrived just a couple days later, and this one looks physically perfect from the outside, however, 1 lid side stays open. Looking at the underside of the lid, it's instantly clear what the problem is... There are grooves that hold a metal bar in place on each "door". Each door is on a fulcrum so that the weight of the metal bar pulls the lid closed again with simple gravity (instead of using a spring). While I admire product design such as this APPEARS intelligent, I wonder how much they've tested the actual action and durability for this design? On my replacement lid, the bar was loose, not in the grooves... likely not in there fully from the factory, and jarred loose in shipping(?) The problem is this bar MUST be in that slot to make the door function. I'm not sure why the slot isn't more captive(?) The design should better encase this bar so it can't be jarred loose. Once you receive this lid, that bar is unlikely to EVER come loose, but I guess this may have happened in shipping.The swing action of the lid is very subtle regardless. The one door that does work is very slow. I imagine the other low-star reviewers aren't exaggerating when they say it's really easy for a liner to interrupt this closing action. Rubbermaid should design a more aggressive fulcrum/leverage to close this lid with more force.The pictures make this lid appear to have an almost iridescent quality... a "sheen"... but in reality the finish is quite dull. The pictures are misleading in that way. The lid matches the can fairly well. On initial ordering I assumed this "special finish" would make the lid appear a lot different from the can, but also thought a slick finish would make it easy to clean, but it doesn't have the same finish as the photos suggest. That's a neutral point for me, as it better matches the can.The material is totally different than the can. I like Rubbermaid products because they're typically a little "rubbery"... appropriately enough. Rubbermaid products usually have some flex to them. These lids are hard, inflexible plastic. I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of these lids are eventually broken in use... or by being dropped when removing them from a trash-can. I don't know why they don't make this out of the same flexible material they use for the Slim Jim trash cans(?)Anyway... as for this product... I'm out. 2 tries was enough. I didn't think it was a great looking solution from the start... but I'll often put FUNCTION over FORM... From my very limited experience with this, I'm not confident that it excels with either.

One side of the lid does not close it just stays open, and even when both lids are closed together there are gaps all around the lids and in the center. Not a good lid. Returned.

Just what we wanted to go with our slim Jim bin. Lid is obviously made to fit these but not well publicised. Nor is it sold with them as a whole bin solution. Anyway, we got it and it's perfect.

Poor for the price, turned up with only one rod for the lid and thats wasnt it. Expected more for the money and

great

The only issue is packaging.I had to return one of three because it was badly scratched.I kept 2 because the scratches were minor.The lid is usually in a box that is to big and the only protection is a paper wrapping so it moved around to muchin the box and gets scratched