Simple Human makes great looking products, so I was excited to see their take on the countertop compost pail. I have a similar aluminum pail at home, but there's one feature the Simple Human pail has that I'm now wishing mine had as well!
Simple Human's compost pail is a 4.5 liter brushed aluminum pail with a natural bamboo handle. It retails for $59.99 so it doesn't come cheap. What makes it so great? Well, for one, it has an integrated filter. (But so does just about every other counter top pail available, you're probably thinking.) But it also has an integrated lid hook. The inside of my lid is always too grimey to set on the counter, so I always end up stashing it into the sink while I fill the pail with compostables. This completely solves that problem!
So while I'm not going to out and buy a new container, I might just keep this one in mind for a DIY project.
Look for a Test Lab of this pail in the coming weeks!
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OK....my first reading of that headline - Simple HUMAN COMPOST Container - sounds a little like a can to make "night soil" in to me!
Marla2- that was my first laugh of the day. Thanks!
ditto!
i freeze my compost, since i only make it to the compost drop off center once a month or so. What i would really like is a compost pail that i can keep in my freezer that would push down and compact the compost as it freezes... otherwise it ends up taking up too much space!
Learn something new everyday! I never even thought to freeze my compost! That's an excellent idea! I don't really freeze much anyways and that makes it more realistic than sending my husband to the compost pile several times a week and having to clean out the container cause of the days it sits and rots under the sink! Thanks for the tip!
We have compost curbside pick up once a week but we too freeze our compost as to keep away the bears away. We have a small container in the mounted on the door under the sink. The lid flips up and stays up while you put in your gunk bits and we probably use about three pails full a week. Then on the day of pick up we put the three frozen bags in the large bin and roll it to the curb.
You just have to dedicate a shelf or section of the freezer to be the frozen gunk bag zone.
@apartmenttherapy47 Get out! You have curbside compost pickup? And bears? Where do you live? that combination makes no sense to me - sounds like a small, groovy eco-hip town which shouldn't have enough money "in this economy" to be able to offer a service like that!
lid hook- and yet the image provided doesn't show it being used, with her resting it on the counter...
/silly