kimr74•1mo agoMost Upvoted

Rant: Spent $200 on a fancy compost tumbler and it broke in 4 months

I got hyped about reducing kitchen waste and bought this spinning compost bin off Amazon. It looked great but the plastic handle snapped right off last Tuesday. Now I'm stuck with a smelly barrel I can't rotate and a pile rotting weird. Anyone else had luck with those metal tumblers or should I just dig a hole in the backyard?

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amy_anderson1mo ago

Plastic handle snapped right off" same thing happened to mine, such a joke lol.

finley_gonzalez491mo ago

Yeah but what brand was it? I'm trying to figure out if it's just a cheapo thing or if even the slightly nicer ones are doing this now. Mine was a basic one from Target and it literally snapped in the first week, like the plastic was so thin you could see light through it. Did yours crack at the side where the handle meets the lid or did it break off clean? Because I swear these companies are using the worst plastic they can find to save a buck, and it's just not safe when you're carrying hot soup or something. I'm honestly scared to buy another one without knowing which ones are actually built to last.

vera_johnson91mo ago

Ngl I think we're all missing the real issue here. It's not just the thin plastic, it's that these companies are designing handles to snap off on purpose. I saw this thing online where a dude tested like 20 different brands and found that almost all of them had a weak point built into the handle mold. Like there's a tiny line inside the plastic that makes it break at a certain pressure point. That way you can't use it for heavy stuff so you have to buy a new one sooner. It's basically planned failure not just bad quality. My buddy actually broke two of the same brand and when he looked at the broken edges they both had this perfect little notch in the same spot. So yeah it's not just bad luck it's literally the design.