To ask if anyone has a trash compactor bin?

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Just wondered if anybody had one of those bins in the kitchen and how they rated it?

I have been looking at a Joseph & Joseph one and a Klarstein one. Most reviews seem good but there are a few bad reviews.

More than I usually pay for a bin so I am not sure what to do.

I had one but it kept jamming, drove me bananas. In the end it went in next doors skip. I can't remember what make it was.

I've never heard of a TCB before so I took a look. Am I right in thinking that if your rubbish is all squashed down to fit more in the binbag, you will be changing the binbag less often? Does that start to niff a bit before the bag is full or is it all contained?

No, but I want one for the kitchen and one for the bathroom! I haven't found one yet with good reviews, though.
Brabantia used to do one but it seems to have been discontinued.

Yes - it’s a regular bin but I have a couple of teenagers who don’t ever want to be the person who changes the bin bag and takes the rubbish out, so it they push the top layer of rubbish down so that the bin can accept more. This means that once the bin is full, there’s usually 4 or 5 days additional capacity thanks to the trash-compacting antics of ds1 and ds2, and dh.

I compact it with my hands.

It’s like this:

I have the JJ one.

The JJ bags rip around the top when you compact it so don’t bother with those just use normal strong ones.

The compacting thing is ok but you would do a similar job with your hands.

Yep the one in the kitchen is compacted by hand when it's too cold/dark to take out, the outdoor ones are compacted by the 8 year old jumping up and down in them when it's still a bit too long to bin day!

@ViciousJackdaw

I've never heard of a TCB before so I took a look. Am I right in thinking that if your rubbish is all squashed down to fit more in the binbag, you will be changing the binbag less often? Does that start to niff a bit before the bag is full or is it all contained?

The Joseph Joseph one has a replaceable odour filter. If it works as claimed It could be okay

@Pyewackect

I had one but it kept jamming, drove me bananas. In the end it went in next doors skip. I can't remember what make it was.

What was the problem with it if you don’t mind me asking?

@LolaButt

I have the JJ one.

The JJ bags rip around the top when you compact it so don’t bother with those just use normal strong ones.

The compacting thing is ok but you would do a similar job with your hands.

Thanks. They are expensive! Doesn’t sound like they are really worth it?

Not really to be honest. I suspect like me, you’re trying to make more room in your wheelie bin outside?

I would just get a normal nice bin if I needed a new one. Which is sad because I wanted compact trash!

I would prefer to compact it in the wheelie bin as I suspect the bin liner in the kitchen bins might sometimes fail when catching potentially sharp waste in the compactor, meaning you either have to take the bin out to the wheelie bin, or the rubbish goes all over the floor! Bonus is that you can use a wheelie bin compactor in more than one bin.