14 Stylish Compost Bins That Don’t Look Like Garbage

14 Stylish Compost Bins That Don’t Look Like Garbage

Turn your kitchen scraps into green gold with these sleek, stylish, and affordable composting bins.

Food scraps and yard waste make up 20 percent of what we throw away. Do your part to reduce trash (and feed your garden) with these compact indoor bins for apple cores, potato peels, paper towels, and more.

Five Two Down-to-Earth Compost Bin
Five Two Down-to-Earth Compost Bin
Give your food scraps new life with help from our compost bin. The backstory: We found out 83% of our community who don’t compost would like to start. So we set out to create a bin that would make taking the next step toward sustainability easy.
Simplehuman 4-Liter Compost Caddy
Simplehuman 4-Liter Compost Caddy
A stainless steel compost caddy that lets you store compostable scraps and has odor-minimizing technology to protect your kitchen from unwanted smells. The caddy attaches to a magnetic dock that hangs at the side of many simplehuman trash cans or you can detach it for use on your kitchen counter.
Mason Cash In The Forest Countertop Compost Bin
Mason Cash In The Forest Countertop Compost Bin
Keeping scraps under wraps. This lil’ compost bin is sized just right for the countertop—and that’s exactly where you’ll want to keep it. It has a charming woodland-inspired pattern that’ll perk up any surface it meets.
Joseph Joseph Stack 4L Food Waste Caddy
Joseph Joseph Stack 4L Food Waste Caddy
The unique ventilated design of this food waste caddy helps to reduce unpleasant odors from decomposing food.
OXO Good Grips Compost Bin
OXO Good Grips Compost Bin
This conveniently-sized OXO Good Grips Compost Bin holds your food scraps until they can be transferred to your outdoor composter. Stop throwing food scraps in the garbage, nurture your garden instead.
Typhoon Homewares Classic Countertop Compost Bin
Typhoon Homewares Classic Countertop Compost Bin
For no-fuss composting that’s eye-catching too, look no further than this countertop bin. It’s fashioned from powder-coated steel, with a carbon filter inside that’ll keep odors at bay. And thanks to its 2-quart size, it’s ready to corral food scraps of all kinds.
Vitamix Food Cycler FC-50
Vitamix Food Cycler FC-50
Bye, food waste. Your food scraps are fertilizer now, thanks to this miracle worker. It takes apple cores, banana peels, chicken bones, the works, then breaks it all down into nutrient-rich goodness that’s a tenth of its original volume.
Alasaw Noaway Countertop Wood Compost Bin
Alasaw Noaway Countertop Wood Compost Bin
Go green.  We honestly didn't know compost bins could be so pretty. This simple and discreet wooden container sits on a kitchen counter to remind you to set aside banana peels, coffee grounds and egg shells, for transfer into municipal green bins or your own garden compost.
Bamboozle Bamboo Compost Bin
Bamboozle Bamboo Compost Bin
A modern compost bin that eliminates food waste and looks damn good in the process. For nearly everyone, food waste is an inevitable part of daily life.
Polder Kitchen Composter
Polder Kitchen Composter
A first-of-a-kind kitchen countertop composter that has it all. Simple and elegant, this wire frame and silicone composter fits any décor and makes an elegant countertop statement.
Full Circle Odor-Free Compost Collector
Full Circle Odor-Free Compost Collector
Your nose won't know you're composting! True to its name, the Odor-Free Compost Collector by Full Circle allows you to collect items for composting without the smell. Thanks to its innovative design that allows air to circulate, food scraps and kitchen waste breakdown faster.
Chef'n EcoCrock Compost Bin
Chef'n EcoCrock Compost Bin
This ceramic crock fits neatly into narrow spaces, and it's designed with an oval opening to make tossing those unused bits easy. It comes with a charcoal filter to prevent smells and an inner bucket to make discarding compost easy and clean.
Epica Kitchen Compost Bin
Epica Kitchen Compost Bin
The Epica Kitchen Compost Bin is specially designed to make composting an easily implemented part of your day.  The bin sits unobtrusively on your countertop, helping you do your part while keeping smells and messes contained.
Full Circle Scrap Happy Scrap Collector & Freezer Compost Bin
Full Circle Scrap Happy Scrap Collector & Freezer Compost Bin
Still iffy about the wild world of composting? We’ve got your back. This bin keeps things odor-free by letting you easily store scraps in your freezer for less mess (and flies). The sturdy container will keep scraps until you're ready to take them to your nearest collection center.

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