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If you’re looking for an easy-to-store laundry basket that can hold a decent amount of clothes, the SAMMART 30L Collapsible Plastic Laundry Basket is a great option.

This basket weighs 2.2 pounds when empty. Our laundry-basket guide writer, Chris Heinonen, filled it with hand weights to reach 40 pounds—about double the weight of a single load of laundry.