The Most Beautiful Composter in the World

Product Description

The Most Beautiful Composter in the World is an innovative, all-in-one, outdoor composting system that combines a compost tumbler drum with a compost tea maker base, made in the USA from food safe, BPA and rust free, UV and antioxidant protected materials. Let's bring jobs back to America. It comes ready to use, with no assembly required, saving you previous time, money and headaches. The drum rotates on top of the base to create solid compost, and if you choose, the base allows you to collect the excess liquid from the drum as compost tea, a precious liquid fertilizer. We designed the Envirocycle composter so you can proudly place it close to your home or in your garden, whether you live in the suburbs or in the city because of its compact space requirements. This is also made possible because of the design of the compost tea collecting base, a rare feature amongst composter models pioneered by Envirocycle, making composting on your balcony, deck, patio or porch a pleasant and clean experience. The composter brings beauty to wherever you may choose to use it because of its elegant design. Customize your composting experience with 8 easy-to-use drain plugs to collect up to 2.5 US Gallons of compost tea in the base, drain compost tea into the soil or boost the humidity in the pile. Easily open the snap latch and door with one hand to dump compostable material with the other. Worms can be used to accelerate the composting process. Slotted vents increase airflow into the drum. Grab onto the drum's deep grooves and turn the drum 3 full times, every 3 days; once the drum is full, after 4 to 8 weeks you will have mature compost. Use it all year long, and during freezing winters, continue to add to the drum without turning it. Easily roll the drum off the base, remove the door, dump and mix your compost into soil or apply as top dressing, without the need to reach into the drum with your hands or any tools, to grow strong plants and healthy fruits and vegetables.

Features

• The most beautiful composter in the world. Produces solid and liquid compost.
• Made of high quality food safe, BPA and rust free, UV and antioxidant protected materials.
• Proudly made in America. Let’s bring jobs back to America.
• No assembly required. And our customer service? Not bad at all…
• We invented it. They try to copy it. We keep improving it.

Top Reviews

Envirocycle simply can not be beat!
by Maura Lillibridge (5 out of 5 stars)
November 30, 2015

We live in Central Texas in Bell County. We do not have good soil here. We have had our Envirocycle for a little less than five years. It is, without a doubt, THE most valuable tool we use in our garden, and on our extensive property. Recently we had a freeze. We compost ALL of our kitchen waste. I went out to make our usual compost run, and when I opened the lid, the tab on the lid had apparently frozen to the compactor and sheared off from the lid--see the picture attached to this review. I called Envirocycle.com's customer service hotline and explained what had happened. I told them how old our composter was. I told them about the freeze. I fully expected them to give me a total cost for a new lid + shipping and handling, and ask for a credit card. They didn't. They said they would be happy to send me a new lid, free of charge, and they were, get this, "...sorry for the inconvenience." They went on to explain how they've improved their product since ours was produced. Honestly, I can't name one car, truck, product, tool or component or anything I own for that matter that is backed by this kind of SINCERE customer service. Unbelievable how Envirocycle stands behind their product, YEARS after it's been in nearly daily use. We have moved with this composter. It's tough. It makes a liquid in the base that is phenomenal and can be easily drained out directly under the root line of our trees. Solid waste is decomposed in a matter of days when it's over 65 degrees. Bones, twigs, old fruit, cooked foods, left-overs, leaves, dog waste, solids and liquids--it ALL goes into our Envirocycle. What comes out is a thick black sludgy-like mass every two weeks or so. We mix in old coffee grounds and dirt, put it in the bottom of all of our plantings, trees and fauna alike, and what happens is this: EVERYTHING we plant is Vibrant! The cool thing is that our garbage doesn't smell, ever. Nothing goes to waste, nothing. The only downside to this remarkable piece of equipment is that you may want to consider putting it down-wind of your residence, or at least out a ways from your house if it is your intention to use it like we do. I know some subscribe to the "natural compost only" theory, but the way we use it, ours gets a little ripe in the heat of summer. What I can tell you is this, ours was a gift to us; if I had 10 of these things, I'd have them all in various stages of composition, so I could use them all the time in the garden and around our ranch. My wife and I are both retired military. We know a good product when we see it, and more importantly, when we've used it. We've used ours, extensively. This review has been written BECAUSE we have owned ours for YEARS, and we felt we actually owed Envirocycle something. THIS IS A GREAT PRODUCT, YOU WILL NOT BE DISAPPOINTED IN ANY ASPECT OF THIS GREAT TOOL FOR YOUR GARDEN!
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Finest composter in the world, with THEE BEST customer service!!!
by Norma J. Murphy (5 out of 5 stars)
September 22, 2015

10 years ago, I ordered my first Envirocycle composter. I LOVED IT!!!! Within a month, I ordered two more. 10 years and a zillion PERFECT BATCHES of compost later, one of my composters suddenly no longer latch securely enough to rotate. Because of the weight of the compost against the door, I found I had to tie the drum each time I rotated. As you can imagine this quickly became a nuisance. I wrote to the company and asked if they could help me figure out a remedy, thinking maybe this had happened to another customer. The same day, they wrote back, APOLOGIZED for the inconvenience this had caused me and...................are you sitting down????..................sent me a brand new composter free of charge!!!!! I almost had a heart attack! I repeat, my three composters are TEN years old (BTW: They look brand new)........... and the company sent me a new one.....free of charge!!!!! This is the finest composter on the market, with an incredible company that stands behind their product. I propagate all my flowers from seed, then plant in my homemade Envirocycle compost. They say a picture's worth a thousand words.........................
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Very nice Composter and easy to use.
by Chris D (4 out of 5 stars)
May 6, 2016

I was kind of undecided between 4 stars (I like it) and 5 stars (I love it). Maybe when I have had it for a bit longer I will reevaluate to see if I do love it. It beats the hell out of our old one. The old one was more a garbage can with no bottom. It didn't roll or mix or anything. Just through things in it and it never really seemed to get full. It ended up being a big mess when I finally lifted it up and had to deal with this pile of goo and a thousand worms. This composter is much neater and cleaner so far. I like how it looks and it turns so things mix fairly well. I say fairly as it seems a lot of stuff is going around in a clump. I may not be using it exactly as they say. I'm not sure how anyone can though. They want you to add so much of each ingredient then let it do its thing for 6-8 weeks while you turn it every three days. I have two so I can be adding to one as we get the stuff from meal preparation or garden/lawn waist. Once its full we will let it sit for 6-8 weeks while we fill the other. We are hoping this system will work. I added some lawn clippings about a week ago to the stuff that was already in there cooking and by the inferred picture attached you can see it does get very warm. It was 20 degrees Fahrenheit over ambient outside. I have high hopes so I will update my review in a few months. The picture was taken in the morning and the composter was just over 70 degrees while the outside temp was just under 50. I'm surprised it didn't have a cat sleeping on top of it.
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Composting
by K. Siu (5 out of 5 stars)
May 6, 2017

The product itself is really well made. I saw with older models they used a metal latch and since improve upon that with a plastic latch. I believe that improvement made a big impact. I don't have much to say about the compost tea since i haven't used it yet really. But you really need to have your compost complete or removed from the base to access compost tea. I only wished they added more weight to base. Because when the base is empty and you have heavy barrow, the base can really move around when you turn it. I wished they added some friction to the base.

In 2016, I bought my first Envirocycle mostly because I wanted to create my lawn and garden soil without relying on fertilizer. I didn't know anything about composting or about the C:N ratios when I started. My first batch was way off because it was too moist and it had too much greens. Although my waste did compost, I found myself constantly adding more material to the compost, which prolonged the composting time. I got these big balls of black mush. I was quite disappointed with my first batch, but I was nevertheless determined.

In 2017, I bought myself a compost thermometer here on amazon 

REOTEMP FG20P Backyard Compost Thermometer - 20" Stem, Fahrenheit with Composting Instructions
. Instead of adding the materials bits in bits, I just put materials into 5-gallon containers before. With these 35 gallons, i usually have like 1-2 containers of greens and 3-4 containers of browns. I also bought myself a second tumbler so that I don't have to wait for the first one to complete because kitchen scrapes do fill up fast! This time around i made sure all my materials are well distributed because of 1) aeration and 2) to avoid clumps. I also made sure it was 4/5 filled because you really do need that critical mass to keep the pile toasty or it'll just die out fast. From my experience, rolling it 3x every 3 days does produce sufficient results.

If it's 70 degrees outside and doesn't heat above 90 oC within the first day, then you got the problem. It's either you have too much/little Carbon, too much/little Nitrogen, too much/little Moisture, or too much/little oxygen. It should really reach 100 oC to 120 oC before your second turn. After 2-3 weeks, most items are barely recognizable. And within 4-8 weeks you should have your finish material.

i'm on my 3 & 4 batches with images provided. Hopefully, my 3rd try is will produce even better results. I'm really hoping to get that nice black soil consistency. I always gotten those black ball clumps, which might mena that i have too little carbon and/or that it's too moist. I'll probably add a bit of peat moss a week before i use the compost for soiling my lawn. and the other barrow i'll mix perlite and peat moss for my garden.

if i have time, i'll post some additional photos of the envirocycle composting my piles. happy composting!
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Magically turn your waste into Black Gold!
by G. Johnson (5 out of 5 stars)
June 8, 2017

How easy, one carton which contained two pieces. Open box, put the base on the ground and place the drum on the base, done. Gotta love that.

Looks awesome and built to last. I should get many years out of this composter. The drum sits on the base which supports the weight and has

eight solid rollers with heavy duty pins. I'm not a fan of units that sit on stands which can break over time or nuts and bolts to deal with. The other reason I chose Envirocycle is because of the reviews, they speak volumes here. I also checked to see if they responded well to customers questions

and they actually do and give some great tips too. I didn't want to start off composting with something that was going to be difficult to put together

and no chance of customer support or a composter that would last one or two seasons. I plan on getting another one so I can add to it while one

is quietly making some compost tea and some really good compost. Kudos to Envirocycle for promptly answering many of the questions I had about getting started with composting.
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I'm glad I didn't buy two.
by zennmaster (2 out of 5 stars)
August 21, 2017

Because of the premium price, I have to view the product with a more critical eye.

Pros:

Well made barrel and it rolls easily. Apparently the CS is good too which is a plus.

Cons:

Relatively flimsy door mechanism. My expectations are higher.

Weak door design to handle water ingress and frequent freeze/thaw cycles.

Rainwater can and will fill the base.

Absolutely the poorest design to collect runoff.

There's a spout on the base yet you have to take the barrel off to use it? These types of instructions almost appear as an edit once they realized that you will get nothing from the spout unless it's pitched 30 degrees or more. I don't buy their comment that people complained about getting their hands dirty when opening the spout - the solution is buy a $.99 garden hose valve yet this still doesn't solve the fundamental weakness of the base. The flow from the spout is so anemic that it took me 20 minutes to empty the base to 40% by standing it vertically. Yes that's right. The base will never fully empty no matter how much you try and standing the base vertically while shaking it caused a few wheels to fall off (which are easy to put back in place but it shouldn't happen in the first place). And for the older/weaker part of the population, lifting 20-30lb for 20 minutes just to get 1-2 gallons of "tea" may not worthwhile or possible. I'm surprised a prototype never revealed this glaring flaw and disappointed that they decided to proceed with production and sell it at a premium price. Does it compost? Yes, very well but so do a dozen other tumblers - compost tumbling is not rocket science.
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First Class Customer Service.
by M. Mcewen-asker (5 out of 5 stars)
June 8, 2016

I have the older, much older version, when their patent was still pending. I have been using it for all these years--more than a decade. However, over those years I lost first one, and then another of the rollers beneath the bin, until eventually I'd mislaid three rollers and found I had a tough time trying to rotate the bin.

I looked for replacements but couldn't find any.

On a whim, I contacted Envirocyle Systems, hoping I could buy replacements. To my surprise, they emailed me right back. Sadly, I needed to provide a whole bunch of information--receipt, where I'd bought it etc. I had none of those facts to hand, so I gave up.

Afterwards, I received regular emails reminding me to forward the information to them.

I thought about the problem, and went out into the garden to photograph the composter's component parts, and sent those photos instead.

Can't tell you how delighted I am to have received those three rollers in the mail--no expense, not even mailing costs. I am so impressed. In fact, I'll probably save up for their new and improved version if that's the kind of first class customer service on offer.
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Smaller than expected--but that's a GOOD thing
by Victoria H. (5 out of 5 stars)
July 18, 2016

Bought this to replace a much larger version that was gifted to me years ago and later destroyed by a crazed exterminator (don't ask! :-o ). The bigger size is outside my price range so I decided to try this one. At first glance after it arrived, I thought it was too small, but on reflection, I think it is going to be perfect.

Envirocycle has made a couple of improvements since they manufactured my old, deceased and much beloved composting tub. First off, the lid to this thing is MUCH larger in proportion to the overall size of the tub. The old design was OK, but when you had a lot of stuff in it and a lot of gardening to do, it used to be a pain to get the compost out and haul it across the yard or dump it in a wheelbarrow a few handsful at a time. The generous new lid design gives you an opening big enough to shovel out a substantial amount of compost in one swell foop. AND: the old model's lid couldn't be removed. This new model has a hefty pin that slides through the hinge -- pull that out and you can lift the lid right off. This will make it possible to simply roll the bin over to a planting bed, remove the lid, and dump the contents right where you want it!

If you're used to a larger composting bin, "The Cutest" looks alarmingly small. However, on reflection I realized the small size has several big advantages:
* When the old huge one was full, it was so heavy I couldn't turn it all the way over to mix the contents. This one will be maneuverable enough for an old lady to rotate without putting her back out.
* Because I now will be able to rotate the tub every few days, the composting process should occur more quickly, especially in Arizona's outrageous summers.
* It doesn't take up a galumphing amount of space. If you live in a townhouse or in one of those tracts where houses are on such tiny lots they're essentially what we used to call "patio homes," this small composter can be stored unobtrusively. It shouldn't get in your way either in terms of climbing over the furniture to get to your grill or visually, in terms of uglifying the patioscape. It really IS very cute, btw.
* It's just the right size for container gardening. One tubful from "The Cutest," when mixed with some garden dirt or potting soil, will send your potted plants into a frenzy of plant joy.
* Because the tub's size is very manageable, it will be easy to roll it across the yard and park it next to the pots and flowerbeds where I'd like to use the finished compost. Probably a youngish, reasonably fit man could pick it up, even if it were full. This will simplify one's gardening life considerably.

Matter of fact, the smaller size looks like such a big advantage that I'm now thinking I'll wait a few months, until I have some more money collected, and then buy another one. This will allow me to have two tubsful of compost in different stages of progress. That way, you would never be "out" of compost -- when one barrel ran low, the other would be close to ready.

A first for me: The first time "5 Stars" really DOES mean "I love it!"
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NOT WORTH THE MONEY
by J. Havens (1 out of 5 stars)
September 14, 2018

I bought this some time back as an impulse buy. it really looked neat but it turned it out just to be a POS. i live on 2 acres of land knowing that i wanted a garden i thought composting was a good idea. This compost bin is so small i don't know what you would use it for. it never worked as advertised. i watched all of there videos to see if was doing something wrong (i knew i was not because i currently have a 1,500 lb compost pile out back cooking at 130 degrees and breaking down so beautifully that it will bring tears to your eyes). IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR A COMPOST BIN THAT IS AWESOME BUY THE GEOBIN. it runs about $35. The evirocycle is way over priced and did not work for me.
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Effective, Easy, Critter-proof - good performance in rural Vermont
by JVT (5 out of 5 stars)
May 24, 2017

Having never composted before, and living in a rural area where wild critters are abundant, I needed a composting solution that was easy for me, effective, and "smarter" than local wildlife. I purchased my 1st of these in April 2016 and used my 1st batch of compost on my garden this spring. Based on a year's experience, I just purchased a 2nd one (both with 35 gallon capacity) so that I can fill one and let the decomposition finish in it while I start using the 2nd.

Since I live in Vermont, the composting process is slow for at least 6 months. Based on the past year's experience and my climate, a full 12 months is required for material to compost fully. FYI, I left the 1st barrel outside all year and it handled the freezing temperatures and snow just fine.

A few comments:

I do not collect the "tea" ... I tried it in the beginning, but the production was so much, so fast I was overwhelmed and knew I would never use enough to keep up. I decided to just let it drain to make my life easier; the drainage holes work quite well. I agree with other reviewers that pouring out the tea is awkward and messy.

I'm somewhat perplexed by a few reviews that said rotating the barrel is difficult once it fills. Yes, it does get heavier, but I never struggled (I am a 5'2" 65+ baby boomer with only average upper body strength). The only time I had trouble rotating the barrel was when it was snowed in and that's on me because I chose not to clear away the snow or ice. And while I agree emptying the barrel once it is full requires some effort, I follow the instructions to take the barrel off of the base, remove the door completely and roll it over to dump out the compost. Yes, I do have to scrape stuff out, but I don't consider this a problem.

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