🛒 Recommended Composting Accessories
The right tools make composting cleaner, faster, and easier to manage. This section highlights practical accessories that support every stage of the composting process — from collecting scraps to checking temperature and texture.
Each item is selected for ease of use, durability, and compatibility with UK composting systems — helping you compost with confidence, indoors and out.
🛒 Original Organics: 10L Slimline Food Caddy-Green
~£8
Item Details
Features: Compact, lid-locking. Smooth, wipe-clean interior. Close-fitting, air-tight lid to stop odour from seeping out.
Dimensions: H: 27cm, L: 41cm, W: 14cm
Link: https://tidd.ly/3IBjhr1
🛒 Original Organics: 5ltr Brown Caddy + 26 Pack of Liners
~£13
Item Details
Features: Brown colour with robust handle – small size designed to be perfect for kitchen and indoor use. Compact, lid-locking. Smooth, wipe-clean interior. Close-fitting, air-tight lid to stop odour from seeping out. Includes 26 pack of liners. (Fully Compostable and certified to EN13432).
Dimensions: Width 19.5cm x Length 13cm x Height 20.5cm
Link: https://tidd.ly/42XtR2p
🛒 Original Organics: Recycled Plastic 7ltr Green Kitchen Caddy
~£12
Item Details
Features: Green colour with robust handle – small size designed to be perfect for kitchen and indoor use. Handle is lid locking ensuring the liner is trapped and nothing inside will fall out. Smooth, wipe-clean interior. Close-fitting, air-tight lid to stop odour from seeping out.
Dimensions: Width 19.5cm x Length 14.9cm x Height 20.5cm
Link: https://tidd.ly/4nn8WgF
🛒 Original Organics: 23L Green Caddy + 25 Pack of Liners
~£20
Item Details
Features: Green colour with robust handle – small size designed to be perfect for kitchen and indoor use. Compact, lid-locking. Smooth, wipe-clean interior. Close-fitting, air-tight lid to stop odour from seeping out. Includes 25 pack of liners. (Fully Compostable and certified to EN13432).
Dimensions: H: 27cm, L: 41cm, W: 14cm
Link: https://tidd.ly/3WlwiIn
🛒 Original Organics: Biodegradable Composting Bags
~£6+
Item Details
Made from a plastic free natural vegetable starch based material. (Fully Compostable and certified to EN13432).
Available in 5 & 7 Litres, 10 Litre, and 30 Litre sizes.
Link: https://tidd.ly/4hvAUWk
Spiral or Corkscrew Design
🛒 Original Organics: Gen 1 Compost Aerator
~£15
Item Details
Features: Ergonomically designed handle & Strong and light-weight. Spiral/Corkscrew Design.
Benefits: Easy to use, eliminates hard labour-intensive shovelling, speeds up composting time, Aerates and mixes right to the bottom of your compost with ease, & easily extracts finished compost from the bottom of your compost bin.
Dimensions: Length – 90cm
Materials: Galvanised steel finish
Link: https://tidd.ly/3WjBE6Q
🛒 Original Organics: Compost Aerator
~£25
Item Details
Features: Ergonomically designed handle & Strong and light-weight
Benefits: Easy to use, eliminates hard labour-intensive shovelling, speeds up composting time, Aerates and mixes right to the bottom of your compost with ease, & easily extracts finished compost from the bottom of your compost bin.
Dimensions: Length – 105 cm
Materials: Galvanised steel, With careful consideration, the pole includes a protective rubber stop on the end to protect hands from the steel bar as well as a full powder coating to ensure protection from the cold in winter of metal and a smooth rotation in the hand.
Link: https://tidd.ly/3Wti2gD
Plunger Design
🛒 Original Organics: Compost Aerator- Turner
~£20
Item Details
This Compost Aerator is ideal for anyone with a compost heap or compost bin. The T-shaped handle allows you to twist this garden tool easily while pulling from the heap which is essential for maximum aeration.
This also helps to greatly reduce wrist and shoulder strain that’s so often associated with L-shaped or single hand compost stirring models.
- T-shaped handle compost aerator
- Made from strong powder-coated steel
- Simple to operate
- Highly recommended by gardening experts
Link: https://tidd.ly/4qHx4h1
🛒 Amazon UK: Stronvive Compost Thermometer
~£3-4
Item Details
Features: Sturdy and anti-rust performance, made of high-end stainless steel material, produced under strict quality control.
Dimensions: 5in/12mm
Link: https://amzn.to/4mJ4o3C
🛒 Amazon UK: Woodside Thermometer – 50cm
~£10
Item Details
Features: Measures from 10℃ to 76℃ with ±2℃ precision. Stainless Steel Probe, Easy-to-Read Dial.
Benefits: Improves Composting Efficiency – Helps maintain optimal heat levels for faster decomposition.
Measurements: 50cm
Link: https://amzn.to/42RDuzA
~£20
Item Details
Features: Sturdy and durable stainless steel.
Measurement: 1mm – 3mm – 5mm
Link: https://amzn.to/46EKBwg
🛒 Original Organics: Recycled Fine Mesh Sieve
~£12
Item Details
Deep plastic sieve featuring integral tough steel diamond mesh. Ideal for sifting compost to give the ideal base for successful seed or cutting raising. Mesh holes are 9mm wide by 5mm.
Materials: recycled polypropylene and galvanised steel.
Dimensions: 36cm (14″) Long 31cm (12″) Wide 12.5cm (5″) High
Link: https://tidd.ly/3Kt734g
🛒 Original Organics: Recycled 2 in 1 Sieve
~£18
Item Details
Highly practical, deep plastic sieve, supplied complete with two interchangeable screens – 6mm and 12mm hole size. Each screen features tough, galvanised woven wire.
Materials: recycled polypropylene and galvanised steel.
Dimensions: 36cm (14″) Long 31cm (12″) Wide 12.5cm (5″) High
Link: https://tidd.ly/46LiLOZ
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