Graco Touch Free Diaper Pail Tan

This diaper pail is SO EASY to use, especially when you only have one hand to reach down and dispose of the soiled diaper while the other's on the child. When the unit initially opens to receive the diaper, occasionally (if there happens to be a particularly rancid stinky diaper therein) there will be a waft of air escaping with a foul odor, but this has only occurred twice in two months of constant use. The motor operation has never been an issue either. Occasionally when it's full, the motor operation will be obstructed causing it to freeze, but after emptying the bag (which is a standard kitchen bag (LOVE THIS!)), you just flip the switch in the back to manual and back to automatic and you're good to go. I've never had any issues with this motor failing (as stated by a previous reviewer). It's been 9 weeks now and I've not had to replace the batteries or the filter. My friends are totally jealous! Filters are a bit pricey. (not marked as 5 stars due to the smell issue and cost of replacement filter)

This is worst piece of junk next to other crappy Gracco products. The door constantly jams. You have to stick you hand inside the ball mechanism in order to free it up. Eventually, something broke inside and now the door will not open. The pale doesn't hold enough diapers to make it through half a week due to the enormous trap door that makes up 30% of the pail. I'm tired of getting ripped off by this company. This is the third product of theirs that malfunctioned and eventually broke. I'll never buy another Gracco product again.

We bought this diaper pail for our nursery. I liked the fact that it was touch free and that it used regular garbage bags. It was wonderful and we liked it so much that bought a second one for our downstairs changing table too.

my daughter luvs it but finding filters is hard, local Target stores stock the pail but not the filters.

We have 16 month old twins so we go through A LOT of diapers. A few months ago, I got fed up wasting money on diaper genie refill packs and started shopping around. The Graco diaper pail got excellent reviews here so I jumped in, and decided to surprise my wife with a new solution, even though it was priced pretty high compared to what we felt a 'diaper pail' should cost.

When she saw it, her first reaction was 'well, it's nice, but...how do we stop the twins from triggering the infra-red opener and playing with it.' Valid concern, the diaper pail quickly became one of their favorite toys (as any parent knows, the best toys from a kid's perspective are the ones that parents don't encourage).

Open...close...open...close... Then one day, the diaper pail got over-full, and somehow wouldn't open or close anymore. When I emptied it, somehow the mechanism to open and close had broken, just weeks after buying it. We can (and do) still manually use the pail, but the electronic part no longer works...

So, my advice is that this would probably be good for new parents, up until kids start walking around themselves and getting curious. I would be careful to empty this regularly, because I suspect ours broke once it got too full. At some stage you may want to just turn off the infra-red part, and just use it manually, it works fine that way.