Urban compost tumblers are designed to produce high quality compost efficiently, that is in the shortest amount of time and with a low amount of effort. Urban compost tumblers also need to be able to store green waste in a way that it does not emit odour or attract rodents, your neighbours will appreciate this!
It is well known that compost needs to be turned regularly to introduce the required amount of air to the mix. On farms and semi-rural environments this means using a pitchfork to turn a large amount of composting material every week or so.
In an urban environments, time is short and space is restricted. Urban compost tumblers are compact and require a minimal amount of effort on your part to rotate the mix and therefore keep it hot and functioning. A hot compost, that with the right mix of air and green and brown plant material will, repel the wrong sort of micro-organisms and attract the right ones. That means that not only will the mix turn into friable loam more quickly but it will also keep away rodents and bad smells.
Compost tumblers or spinning composters are one of the most practical pieces of garden equipment to come along since the invention of compost, and if you have any other style of compost bin, then once you try these styles you will wonder why you ever used another method. It really just makes sense to use this style unless you simply have too much compost for the compost tumblers to fit.
We conducted research into the best urban compost tumblers based on energy efficiency (both compost and human), size and ease of use. You can find out our chosen models on our Spinning Composter homepage.