I recieved this as a present for my first son, and ended up throwing it out! My two biggest complaints are 1)the lid is very hard to keep clean, and 2)it hardly contains the odor. It might be alright for just wet diapers, but definitly not for "messy" diapers. I much prefer to just wrap the "messy" ones in a grocery bag, and put all my diapers wet or messy in my kitchen trash, that way they go outside by the end of the day, and I don't have to fuss over cleaning a silly diaper "champ".