The Most Beautiful Composter in The World, Made in The USA, Food Safe, BPA and Rust Free, No Assembly Required, Composting Tumbler Bin and Compost Tea Maker

I decided to write a review because it was the reviews I read here that helped me to pick this product. I just started gardening this year, so this is my first time composting.I am very happy with the product. I received my composter about three weeks ago. There was no assembly required. The size is good... not too big, not too small (in a two people household). It is simple design and seems to be really strong. I love not having to use a shovel to move my compost around. I am saving the parts of vegetables that I normally would put in the garbage in a plastic container in the refrigerator. And every few days, when I have a good amount saved, I put them in the composter. This way I don't have flies on my kitchen counter and I don't have to go to my composter every day. This idea I got from one of the reviews here. I hope it is not a bad thing, but I turn the composter almost every day since it is so easy. The composter does not smell at all. Another day I noticed some maggots... I added more browns and they disappeared. Right now it is summer July 2013... I am hoping to have some compost for the spring next year since I am adding material to my compost slowly. I am happy for starting composting and doing it with this product because it made things so easy. The part of vegetables that would go to the garbage will be food for my plants next year... it reduces my waste, this composter make it a clean process, my vegetable garden will have a excellent source of nutrients next year... and all this for free!!! (after buying the composter that is kind of pricey...lol)

It's a nice idea, and I really liked the compact size. Unfortunately, to my detriment, I ignored the other reviewers' comments about the door latch and took a chance on this. I will never ignore the Amazon reviews again! This is what I've found in just a couple of weeks of use:1. The slits for air movement/drainage of compost tea are a total drawback. Liquid drains out as you turn the bin and basically covers the middle circumference of the outside part of the bin. You will be unpleasantly surprised to find that that is where you put your hands to turn it!2. The depressions along the middle of the bin are for turning, which in theory is a nice idea. Reality is that they are not deep enough, and don't provide you with enough leverage. Add in the effluent-soaked surfaces and you will never be able to turn it! It began to be very difficult to turn it even at half full, and I am not a weak guy. If you have the right amount of moisture, the compost will be somewhat sticky anyway, so you have to turn it until the compost heaves over leaving you having to lift the weight of the mass until that happens. Do this over and over again, it doesn't get any easier as you turn.3. The Lid. Oh my, where do I begin. I distinctly remember one of the reviewers saying they were waiting for the lid to come off while turning. Well it happened to me as soon as I got enough material in there (60% full). (If that is overfilling it then the capacity is so low as to make this unit useless.) Have fun cleaning up the rotted, smelly organic matter that covers your hand grips and falls all over your driveway. First of all, the latch is laughable as others have said. It is less than flimsy. I was doubtful about it just opening the box. It is a thin piece of plastic in the shape of 'C' that is supposed to keep the lid closed but moves backwards on its own, and the edges are completely smooth. There is no way to keep this piece of thin plastic solidly in its hole. Also, the hinge itself is a round pin that the lid end is on, and also does not have any way of keeping it from coming off. So, as soon as you have enough material, BOOM, the latch and hinge fail and the whole lid is on the ground with a fair amount of compost on the floor.So, in sum, if you buy this exact type of compost bin, you are doing yourself a disservice. Unless you don't really like yourself and like to have more problems than solutions, then it's okay. Absolutely don't buy this piece of junk. For $150 bucks you should expect better.

This is our second envirocycle. The reason is that one is not so very useful. It produces compost in batches. In a standard tower composters which work much slower, but finished compost comes out the bottom while you are adding to the top. With rotatitng composters, you keep turning as you add. The comost is produced quicker, but in order to have it finished you must stop adding new material for a number of weeks. That's when you need a second composter. This is true of all rotating composters.So, once we had one, we needed a second one. You can buy a matched pair on a single base, in some places, and save some money. Still, they are expensive, so the value for money is not great.That said, they do work. A couple of gripes: turning them is not real easy and is a messy job, as the bottom sits in a pool of compost juice. Some sort of side handles would have been nice. And then there is the reason the bottom sits in juice: It's supposed to be collecting in the base, but the holes - both in the drum and the base - tend to get plugged.Overall, a pretty good product. I would not go this route again, as I am not sold on its advantages over the standard tower composters for tripple or more price. You can buy 6 or 7 subsidized towers from our city for what we spent. And the claims of speed are bogus: you actually *start* getting compost sooner out of the tower because with the rotators there is no compost at all until some weeks after you stop adding new material. For that matter, I am not convinced of the advantage of towers over the good old compost pile (other than neatness and space-saving), which is easier to add to and easier to turn selectively, so the bottom layer gets finished.