🛒 Recommended Composting Bins and Heap Frames
Looking to start or upgrade your composting setup? This guide features durable, beginner-friendly bins and frames made from plastic and wood — ideal for UK gardens of all shapes and sizes.
🧩 Explore options that:
- Support both cold and hot composting for garden and kitchen waste
- Include breathable wooden frames and sealed plastic bins for year-round use
- Suit patios, allotments, and traditional garden beds
Each product is selected for practicality, weather resistance, and ease of use — helping you compost confidently through every season
Plastic Compost Bins
🛒 Original Organics: Tumbleweed 240L Compost Bin
~£60
Item Details
Features: Flat packed. Easy to assemble, Fitted lid restricts flies from entering, 3 x access doors for easy compost extraction
Dimensions: 78cm Height // 77cm Width
Materials: 100% UV protected recycled plastic
Link: https://tidd.ly/3VKKJW7
🛒 Original Organics: 260L Garden Compost Box
~£35-40
Item Details
Features: Sturdy weatherproof plastic. Twin opening hinged lid and sliding front door panel. Dark colour helps absorb the suns heat while the air slots to help circulate fresh clean air and speed up the process of turning garden and kitchen waste into rich compost.
Dimensions: H: 73cm, W: 60cm, D: 60cm
Capacity: 260 Litres
Link: https://tidd.ly/46OZz34
🛒 Original Organics: 220L Green Compost Bin
~£40
Item Details
Features: Extra-wide hatch for convenient access to finished compost.
Dimensions: Height: 90cm, Diameter: 74cm
Capacity: 220L
Materials: Recycled & Recyclable Plastic
Link: https://tidd.ly/3VKi0Ru
🛒 Original Organics: Rapid Composter 280 L
~£100
Item Details
Colour: Green
Dimensions: Height 89, Width 80, Depth 80 cm
Link: https://tidd.ly/46Omeg0
Wooden Compost Bins
🛒 One Garden: Zest Eco Hive Composter
~£ 240
Item Details
- Popular beehive-style design
- Dual opening lid, easy to remove for compost cultivation
- Sliding front hatch for compost removal
- Angled narrow gaps in the side panels aid airflow
- Large, 405 litre capacity
- No floor – must be placed onto soil
Link: https://tidd.ly/4ortmGg
Sale price: £185.99 (18/10/2025)
🛒 One Garden: Rowlinson Beehive Composter
~£170
Item Details
- Beehive-styled wooden composter for garden waste
- Pressure treated against rot
- Lifting lid with lid stay
- Approximate capacity of 211 litres
- Removable bottom panel
- Interlocking construction
Link: https://tidd.ly/4nU71Bb
Open Heap Frames
🛒 One Garden: Zest Composter
~£76
Item Details
The Zest Wooden Composter is a simple slatted wooden design with interlocking, pressure treated wooden boards.
- Easy access to compost
- Easy to build
Dimensions: 1 m3
Materials: PEFC certified timber from managed resources
Link: https://tidd.ly/4ne8kdd
Sale price £48.99 35% off (16.10.2025)
🛒 One Garden: Rowlinson Budget Composter
~£60
Item Details
- Simple composting solution for your garden waste
- Pressure treated against rot
- Open slatted design
- Approximate capacity of 439 litres
- Quick and easy assembly
- Interlocking construction
- 1 m3
Link: https://tidd.ly/4n1PZzL
Sale Price: £49.99 – Usually: £59.00 (18/10/2025)
🛒 ebay: Wooden Slatted Garden Composter
~£45-50
Item Details
This wooden slatted composter is an efficient way to create beautiful, rich compost. Measuring 65cm tall by 92cm deep by 120cm wide, meaning it will hold over 700 litres of material, with the gaps between slats allowing constant aeration of the compost.
The slats at the front of the composter can be removed individually, allowing easy access to the best compost at the base of your pile. The slats are treated with a clear preservative.
Coming flat packed, this composter does require home assembly – two side braces are screwed in (fixings included) and the rest of the pieces simply slot together.
Link: https://ebay.us/DsiBqD
~£65
Item Details
- Colour – Green.
- 50mm x 50mm Mesh, 4mm Wire.
- Plastic Coated For Longer Life – Corrosion Resistant.
- Clips Together With Heavy Duty Zip Ties.
- Easy to load and unload by opening the small panels, Lower the top panel to load and the bottom panel to unload.
- Comes flat packed – easy to construct, Folds Away Easily.
- 1.2m (48″) High, Approx 90cm Diameter.
- Can be altered to a 1m x 0.5m x 1.2m high Rectangular Composter.
Link: https://ebay.us/CjTOz5
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