I have them on most of my drawers. They are all side mount ball bearing soft close anti slam. I bought the slides off the net. The all close very nicely throughout the whole motion. The closing feature doesn't pull in until the lat 1-2" It does take a little effort to pull the drawers open due to the soft close feature. I paid about $12 per drawer for the slides.

Just a thought:

He can buy a blum drawer kit from Ikea or elsewhere, mount it high in the box, and cut a hole in the center of the bottom drawer panel that the can will sit in, resting on its rim.

That should give your trashcan the same sort of pullout as the rest of your drawers.

Would work better with the metal drawer sides where little/none of the hardware is beneath the drawer than the bottom mount slides.

It might be installed slightly wrong. The glides aren't perfectly aligned to each other if its fairly tuff to push in when the can is about half-in.

It might "wear in", but it might not.

My trash pullout (IKEA) has Blum soft close, so it pulls out smoothly and closes smoothly.

I'm having the same problem that you're having with the trash drawer. If I push from an angle, it won't close. Maybe that's to be expected. Even if I'm straight on, and give it a firm push, it only closes 95% of the way and stops a couple of inches before fully closing. My side mounted glides are from Diamond.

Thanks to everyone. My gut feeling is that bmore is right. The glides have an almost grindy feeling once the pull-out is halfway closed. I'm going to press the cabinetmaker to make it right. I'm just bummed that after making such gorgeous cabinets, he would try to pass a defective slide install off on us.