I can’t believe my life has come to this, but I am writing a review abut diaper pails. But, I feel that my gained knowledge about #2s is worthy of being passed on, and although it might sound a little silly, I have become strangely enamored with my diaper pail, the Dekor.We have 5 kids, and over the years, I’ve changed a lot of diapers. The first diaper pail we got years ago was a diaper genie, and I was never a fan. My biggest complaint was that after you had changed the diaper, you had to push said stinky, gross, and sometimes - otherworldly large diaper thru a small hole on the genie… squishing it to fit into a small hole would often cause, let’s call it “spillage”, that would get poop on your hand, on the pail, and generally places where you don’t want poop. Remember, you are doing this while holding your bundle of everlasting joy in one arm while reaching down to stuff the otherworldly large diaper into an unfathomably small hole. Not an easy task.And then, we discovered the Dekor. It rocks. Why? It’s HANDS FREE. Game changer. It has a foot pedal that opens the pail, then you simply drop the diaper thru the trap door. That’s it! Let me tell you, when it’s 3 a.m., and you are a zombie from lack of sleep, you need this process to be as simple as possible. I shudder to think the number of diapers that I have changed over the years, but this diaper pail makes it a lot easier than it was with the Genie.There is another pail that we looked at, the Ubbi, that cost quite a bit more and is made of metal. I looked at in in the store, and it also requires bending over, and sliding a door open, inserting a diaper, and then sliding it closed when finished. Kind of a pain to do every time you change a diaper. It is made of metal, so it shouldn’t absorb odors like the diaper genie did, but the Dekor is made of ABS that doesn’t absorb odors either, so I don’t see the big deal. Another think about the metal pails. In my research (isn’t it a bit sad that I’ve done research? – We really need to get out more), the manufacturer says to clean with a dry cloth. No cleaning products or even water. Ok, that is just gross. With Dekor, clean with whatever household cleaner you want, let’s kill any germs that are hanging around.Bags. Different pails have different systems. Some use household kitchen bags, some use cartridges of bags. Dekor comes with a loaded refill, and in my opinion, that is the way to go. You use what you need, and then switch out the bag. We tried using a kitchen bag instead of the refill in the Dekor, and it was ok, but honestly, we preferred the refill. It’s always there and ready to go, you only use what you need, and in the long run I bet it costs about the same.Stink. Stank. Stunk. – (Prepare for more wisdom). Poop stinks. Shocking isn’t it? There's a reason every diaper pail that's been around more than a couple months has a bunch of 1 star reviews. Go look at all the other product. Notice they're all about 3.5 or 4 stars. Then click on the 1 star link for each of them and you'll see what I mean. You'll see dozens of people talk about how each product is terrible and every pail sticks to high heaven. Mostly that's because people have unrealistic expectations that buying a diaper pail means you never have to smell poopy diapers. This is compounded by the fact that the poop only starts to smell once your bundle of everlasting joy begins eating solids. So when you first bring the baby home you think everything is great and the pail is working perfectly and then all of the sudden the pail is terrible and horrible and is broken... Well it's not broken, your baby's poop just didn't used to stink and now it does. Here's the truth, no matter which on you buy, you're gonna smell poop. whether it's when you open the lid or remove the bag, they all allow a little stank to escape. Dekor is no different, it just allows less than the others. Sometimes we go a few days between changing the bag, sometimes we switch it out quicker due to one of those otherworldly poops. The box for the Dekor says it can hold 60 diapers. We might have gone close to that with some newborn diapers, but once the poop got serious, we never waited that long.Reading back over this, I can’t believe I just wrote a manifesto on diaper pails. But, I thought I would share some of the knowledge I have gained over thousands of diapers. I just think the Dekor works. It’s the easiest to use of all the diaper pails by far, and handles the smell. I highly recommend it. Read more

Comparison: Genie, Plus, Classic*I hope this review and photos are helpful! This is the review I wanted when trying to decide which Dekor to buy.Updated Note 5/2018: We have used this for close to six months now. While I do still love it, it has started to stink. My husband comments on it. He didn't share that complaint very often with the Genie. The entire unit stinks, not just when I am opening the trap down to drop a diaper. When I open the main door to remove the diapers, a big waft hits me before I have even disturbed the diaper bag. I do believe the smell seeps through the bags (I started with their own and have just recently tried Babyfeel just to see if that brand might be better - seems to be the same). Once the smell seeps through the bag, I'm pretty sure it is being absorbed by the plastic. To combat this issue, I am going to bag the stinky diapers and either dispose of them right away or have them double bagged with a grocery sack. Also, I did dump some baking soda into the bag once and that helped absorb the odor. I still am not ready to go back to a Genie, but I did want to add a word of caution if you are switching for scent control.Original review, unchanged:We used the Genie for 21 months now and I'm glad to move on. The sleeves were annoying and so frequently had to shake/rock the unit around to get the diapers to drop. Occasionally, with a large, full diaper, I had to push it in. Yuck. This won't happen with a NB size, but a size 4, yes. Also, the Genie sleeves are a bit more costly.Plus: love it! The trap door is spring loaded for the right weight of a diaper and it closes very quickly. I thought the lower height might become a complaint of mine, but since I don't have to push the diaper in, it isn't an issue. My one and only complaint is that the bags are a noisy plastic when removing the bag (think grocery sack). Not really an issue, but I did frequently gather them after the toddler was sleeping. Easy to change my ways for the benefit of loving the pail! Other reasons to love:+price! ($32 Warehouse open box!)+replacement bag price+shape of canister+contains smell very well+sleek appearance+easy to remove bag+foot pedal+large trap door compared to Classic+lid can disassemble to become a garbage with a lid (I didn't verify this, but it was a bonus feature in my selection of Dekor)Classic:Same benefits as the Plus, except that the trap door is smaller. See pictures if this is important to you. It don't make a difference for a newborn, but I like the size for our size 5 toddler diapers! Also, the classic holds quite a few less diapers. It doesn't feel too much smaller than the Plus. I think you would be happy with either if you don't mind changing the bag a bit more often, and if the trapdoor size isn't an issue. I did not physically use this one since I plan to return it. I'm sure the door is large enough, but since there was a big difference between the two trapdoors, I wanted the larger. Refills cost the same per diaper capacity when I did the math.Overall, the Plus seems comparable to the Genie in capacity, is more user-friendly, contains the smell better since the trap door shuts so quickly with each use, and is more cost effective. And, it can be used as a garbage in the future. I'm a Dekor convert for sure!*I think you would be happy with the Classic as well, but no one wants to change them out anymore than you have to. See the pictures for size difference; the trapdoor size was the factor that swayed me to keep the Plus and return the Classic. I hoped the Classic would fit beside our toilet in the bathroom, but it is too large for the space. I may try the mini, though I would imagine the trapdoor will be somewhat small for pull-ups and toddler diapers. (Not a verified observation, just a guess)The last photo is the Genie compared to the Plus. Read more

I first bought the Dekor three years ago and I loved it. Even without the slot for odor-eating disks that many diaper bins have, this diaper pail did a great job at keeping odors in. Can you believe that I washed it only once in three years? I mean whenever I opened the pail to change the bag, the odor nearly killed me. But once the bin was closed again, the smell was mostly contained.After three years, the Dekor started to stink and neither baking soda, nor airing it outside, nor wiping it down with Lysol worked. So, I said goodbye to my old Dekor and bought a new one. Big mistake. Somewhere along the way, Dekor got cheap on its customers. I don't know if it is the thickness of the plastic or some other quality issue, but somehow, the new Dekor releases odors like you wouldn't believe. Even one dirty diaper in it stinks up the entire room.I am disappointed and can no longer recommend the Dekor. I suggest you buy one of those diaper pails with the slots for odor-eating disks. For now, I am using cat litter deodorizer poured into the bin to keep the odor somewhat in check.Please click "helpful" below, if this review is useful to you. Read more

Looks nice, works great (no longer smell the dirty diapers and there are sooo many).Love that can use regular garbage bags and use as a regular garbage can after.Only thing is that there was a brochure on the top of the diaper pail and it left red ink stains but that does not affect the function so I'm ok with it but would suggest manufacturer not place brochures on the top since ink transfers, maybe put them outside the plastic bag the pail comes in. Read more

Great pails. I love dekor pails and have been using them for two babies now. My last Pail lasted five years before the clip broke and I replaced with another pail. The old Pail is still useful for garbage or what not. I used this for disposables at the start and then for cloth diapering. I can almost fit three days worth of pocket diapers in there. Last day I just use a wet bag for whatever won’t fit before wash time. No big deal as when baby is older she will go through less diapers. Probably fits about 18 to 20 pocket diapers and inserts. Contains smell very well. I even have a smaller version of this Pail in the bathroom that I use for disposable wipes and cloth liners. The step and drop doesn’t work for me. I have to push my diaper in a bit but it doesn’t bother me. The disposable bag system it comes with is amazing for disposables. Highly recommend. Read more

- I am disappointed that the bottom part does not stay shut. It always opens on me, therefore releasing a smell, and also just doesn't stay shut like it's supposed to. When I go to close it I have to fiddle with it for minutes before it's shut properly. This is a problem.- It doesn't hold as much as I had hoped.- It doesn't seem very good quality for the price you pay.- It comes apart really easily in ways it's not supposed to.I am disappointed by this purchase and feel it was much overpaid. I'd love my money back.What I do like: the hole is slightly bigger than the Ubbi pail (though ti should be a bit bigger still for my needs.) The Ubbi is better quality but the hole is way too small, so I returned it. This is my second diaper pail from Amazon, and once again I'm disappointed, but I need one and don't know what else to get. Read more

Très grande capacité. Seulement la petite porte que je trouve fatiguante puisque la pédale ouvre la grosse mais la petite porte est à spring et reste souvent coincée ouverte soit dans les couches ou dans le sac. La senteur sort pas un coup la grossePorte fermer même si la petite est restée ouverte. Plus odorante que les diapergenie lorsque ouverte mais c’est le prix à payer pour avoir une grande capacité et surtout moins de systèmes qui brise. Mais selon moi c’est la meilleure poubelle à couche sur le marcher. Read more

I am writing this review specifically from the perspective of a cloth diaper user. I am sure this works great for disposables, but the claim that it's 'compatible' with cloth diapers is false, and frankly a little infuriating.Short version: if you are using any kind of cloth diapering system, avoid this and just get a larger normal waste bin with a foot pedal. There isn't a single diaper pail on Amazon that works conveniently for cloth diapers, and any inconvenience you'll experience from not having a 2-lid system to keep in the stink, doesn't come close to the convenience of ACTUALLY having a pail that works for cloth diapers. I know this is a crappy reality (mind the pun) but a larger (taller AND wider) waste bin is your only option. Maybe find some sort of odour spray remover and pray it works, or just make sure the waste bin's lid is super tight so that the stink only comes out for the few seconds you open it to toss another reusable in. This is the best advice you will ever receive, I promise you.---------Long version: When you use cloth diapers everything is thicker, heavier, and bulkier. Not just the diapers, but the inserts that go inside of them, the diaper bag that goes into the pail, cotton prefold towels you put the baby on top of while changing them, and any reusable cloth wipes you might use (instead of 'flushable' disposable wipes). All in all, if you tried to compare the "stuff" you'd put into this pail between disposables vs reusables, a single reusable diaper+wipes+prefolds+inserts is roughly 3-5x as much bulk as a single disposable. So after all is said and done, this pail will become full after about 7-10 cloth diaper+wipes+prefolds+inserts depending on your brand/system. Are you changing your baby every 2-3 waking hours? Because of so your diaper pail is full after maybe 24 hours if you're lucky. So, no matter what you need spend money on a second bag, and taking it the full one daily. Maybe you'll wait for both to get full to do a single wash, but the pail's size does not lend well for cloth diapers.This also means the opening where you remove and put in the diaper bag is too small for a bulky thick cloth diaper bag. It just isn't an easy size to replace conveniently.Then there is the 3 lid system. This thing has 3 "flaps" or lids, whatever you want to call them. There is the top thin lid, that is foot-pedal operated. Then there is a tiny lid or mouth in the middle that is kind of like a lip, that you toss the diaper through (and it flaps open and closed on a spring). And then you have the main larger lid that pops up the entire thing so you can take out a bag and put in a new one. Let's go through them:1) Once you step on the foot pedal to raise the thin lid up, the little lip/lid inside that lets you toss a diaper in is spring loaded, so that it flaps down during a diaper toss, then flaps back up. But, when you're using cloth diapers the bulk fills up so fast that eventually that lip can't flap down anymore because there are diapers in the way. So really, the clearance for that lip/lid to open/close must always remain diaper free, so you can't even FILL up your diaper pail to capacity before you have to remove it. So right off the bat, the claims of the dimensions of this thing is a lie because you can't even fill it to capacity before removing the bag.2) The larger main lid is utterly horrible. The one you pull up completely to replace the diaper bag with a new one. Because this larger main lid doesn't stay up on it's own, you have to constantly hold it up with one hand and try to get the bag into the pail with the other. And because you chose cloth diapers the diaper bag you're putting in is thick and bulky so it's just a constant challenge. And you will be annoyed by this. Every. Single. Day. Oh right, and there's a screaming baby too.3) The thin lid that is foot-pedal operated is mostly fine, except when your diaper bag starts to get full. Because of the weight of a full diaper bag inside the pail, it rests inside the pail. This added weight sometimes prevents the top lid from coming back down once your foot is off the pedal. So that lid will just stay 'open' the fuller your bag gets. Sometimes you can use your hand and push it back down and it'll stay, but other times if the bag is sitting on its mechanism just right, it'll flip right back up again. Stupid.The worst about all this is by the time you realize all of this, you are so deeply stuck in using the pail that there's no hope to return it so you're either stuck hating it for entirety of your diaper-life, or you throw cash in the garbage by getting something else instead.I think whoever made this just like every other disposable diaper pail company said "hey, its a bin you throw stuff in, let's advertise it as cloth diapers too" without any proper testing to verify the claims.So I will tell you - diaper pails are not big enough to handle reusable cloth diapers. Unless you find a magical one made in the mountain tops of Mars sold for 800 bucks, get a waste bin instead that holds in odours while the lid is down. I promise, promise, promise you...it's your best and only option. Stay away from this crap and products like it that lie about their cloth diaper support. Don't waste money like I did on a tiny plastic bucket that was supposed to make your life easier but instead frustrate you for years. Read more