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You can use 3 gallon BioBags
We've only had this Joseph Joseph 30046 Compo Easy-Fill Compost Bin for less than a week, long enough to only fill it once, but I wanted to get this review posted to show photos of how the lid and collar come off to hold the bag, which the manufacturer's photos never show.
We buy 3 gallon / 10 liter BioBags. In the photos, you can see how one lifts off the collar, inserts the bag, and places the collar back down. Part of the BioBag hangs out beyond the collar. Some users might consider this an eyesore but we don't. JosephJoseph sells its own bags that don't extend beyond the collar.
We previously used an Endurance stainless steel cylinder with charcoal filters in the lid. The main complaint was always finding enough hands and a place to separately place the lid somewhere before scraping the plates. Also, the neck of the bag would get sucked down into the can during the week and we'd have to pull it back up. This JosephJoseph unit solves both problems by allowing one to flip open the lid with a flick of a finger and then it stays open, and having a collar to secure the bag.
Our new JosephJoseph looks much smaller than the old Endurance, so we filled the JJ with water and poured it into the Endurance and found the JJ holds about 90% of what we were used to, so that's good.
We live in a city that has weekly curbside pickup of yard waste and all food waste for making compost.
We would have liked to have the JJ in the Graphite color that they used to make their other model in. I wrote to them and was told they have no current plans to make this model in Graphite.
Edit: after three weeks of use, no complaints. We like it.
February 2019 · Home and Kitchen · verified purchase