The bowl by the sink was never the plan.

The countertop compost bin that comes with five filters, because one was never going to be enough.

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Four spare filters in the box
10 mm of carbon
1,200+ kitchens
No subscription, ever
60-Day Nose Test
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Four spare filters in the box
10 mm of carbon
1,200+ kitchens
No subscription, ever
60-Day Nose Test
Free Global shipping
Four spare filters in the box
10 mm of carbon
1,200+ kitchens
No subscription, ever
60-Day Nose Test
Free Global shipping
Four spare filters in the box
10 mm of carbon
1,200+ kitchens
No subscription, ever
60-Day Nose Test
Free Global shipping
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Nobody quits composting because it's hard. They quit because of the smell.

It starts as a bowl. A mixing bowl by the sink, a grocery bag on a cabinet handle, a container in the fridge next to actual food. All of it temporary. All of it still there four months later.

So you buy a bin, and for a while it's perfect. Six weeks of nothing. You tell people about it. Then one morning you lift the lid and have to step back — and you assume you bought a bad one.

You didn't buy a bad one. You bought a fine one and ran it on a dead filter, because nobody tells you the filter has a lifespan. That's the whole story, and it's the reason there's a bowl by your sink again.

1.3 Gal

about a week of scraps for two people

0

vent holes — the reason it doesn't turn to sludge

0

days between fresh carbon

Made for the counter  you actually use.

Learn more about what makes Odds&Ends unique.

1.3 gallons 

about a week of scraps for two people, a few days if you cook every night. It stands 11.2 inches tall and 7.2 across, which clears a standard upper cabinet with room to spare. That matters more than it sounds: a bin that doesn't fit under the cabinet ends up on the floor, and a bin on the floor is a bin you stop using.

It rinses clean and starts over.

Plastic is porous, so the smell works its way into the surface and stays — that's why the dishwasher, the baking soda and the bleach all stop working on a bin you've had a year. Brushed stainless has nothing to absorb into. Rinse it under the tap, dry it, done. The body is dishwasher-friendly; hand-dry the base.

Because you carry it twice a week.

A thin stainless bail handle on two rivet caps, which folds flat against the side when you're not using it. Up, and you can walk it to the chopping board and back, or out to the garden bin one-handed while you open the back door with the other. Down, and it disappears — no handle sticking up under the cabinet.

One fitted, four in the drawer. Nothing renews.

The carbon disc is the part that decides whether a bin works, and when it fills up nothing visible happens — the bin just quietly stops holding the smell. So there are five in the box, 10 mm each, instead of the single disc everyone else ships. No subscription, no auto-renewal, nothing to cancel. You bought filters, not a relationship.

The part nobody explains.

A short guide we wrote, free with every bin: what goes in, what absolutely doesn't, and how to find somewhere to empty it — including if you've never owned a garden in your life. Because the bin solves the kitchen half of composting, and this is the other half.

9,000 kitchens and counting.

Most of them had given up once already.

"I bought three more as gifts."

I got it for myself in March and I've since sent one to my cousin and two at Christmas. It's the rare present that's both useful and nice to look at, which is a short list.

Joey F.
Joey F. Verified customer

"I can put my face over it and not smell a thing."

We drop our scraps at a local site once a week, so no smell was non-negotiable. Fruit peels, spoiled leftovers, egg shells, coffee grounds, a full week in and there is nothing. We had a fruit fly problem right before this and they never came back.

Lauren A.
Lauren A. Verified customer

"We forget it's even there."

We used a plastic bin before and the little bugs hovering around it became unbearable. Since this one, two things improved: no bugs, and no odor. We forget it is there until we open it to put scraps in. I wish we'd got it years earlier.

Kelly V.
Kelly V. Verified customer

"Nobody told me the carbon fills up."

I'd been through two bins and blamed both of them. Turns out the filter saturates and then just stops, that's why they seemed to fail out of nowhere at about the two-month mark. Now a fresh one arrives before that happens and I genuinely never think about it.

Danny G.
Danny G. Verified customer

"My city changed the rules and this solved it in a day."

When the law changed we had to separate organic waste and I had no idea what to keep it in that wouldn't be hideous. This sits on the counter looking shiny and proud and I stopped thinking about the whole thing.

Paula R.
Paula R. Verified customer

"Smaller than I pictured. That turned out to be the point."

I expected something bigger and I'm glad I was wrong, it fits under my upper cabinets with room to spare. It holds about four days for the two of us. If you cook every night you'll be emptying it more than that, which honestly you should be anyway.

Amanda L.
Amanda L. Verified customer

The 60-Day Nose Test. Guarantee

Use it for two months. If your kitchen smells even once in those sixty days, email us with your order number and we'll refund the kit. Keep the bin. We're not going to make you box up a steel bucket and stand in line at the post office to prove a point. One per household. That's the whole policy.

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The 60-Day Nose Test. Guarantee

Use it for two months. If your kitchen smells even once in those sixty days, email us with your order number and we'll refund the kit. Keep the bin. We're not going to make you box up a steel bucket and stand in line at the post office to prove a point. One per household. That's the whole policy.

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100% Satisfaction
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Easy Refunds