Kitchen Composter
Countertop composter with push-through silicone bucket, rotating airflow lid, and no-liner design for hands-free emptying
The Kitchen Composter was designed around a simple insight: composting is worthwhile, but every composter before this one asked you to accept a few unpleasant moments as part of the process.
The flexible silicone bucket inverts to release scraps into your outdoor bin without hands ever contacting the contents. The non-stick interior rinses clean. The rotating lid controls airflow to manage odor between emptying trips and support proper decomposition. No liners to buy, replace, or run out of. The wire frame carries easily and sits cleanly on any countertop.
Winner of the 2018 Good Design Award. Designed by Michael Graves Design for Polder.
Design for Every Body
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The composter that figured out what was making it unpleasant.
Composting is worthwhile. Most people who do it already know that. What they have quietly accepted as the cost: the smell that builds in the bin, the moment the liner has to come out, the hands that end up closer to the scraps than they want to be, the proprietary bags that run out and have to be reordered.
MGD journey-mapped the full composting routine, from the first vegetable peel dropped in to the finished compost in the outdoor bin, and designed around every point where the process was asking something unpleasant of the person doing it.
The result is a silicone bucket that inverts to empty without hand contact. A rotating lid that controls airflow so odor stays managed and decomposition moves at the right pace. A non-stick interior that rinses clean or goes in the dishwasher. No liners to buy, run out of, or replace. A wire frame that carries easily and sits on any countertop without looking like something you’re tolerating being there.
Cooking is one of the twelve Activities of Daily Living that Michael Graves Design builds around. The objects involved in that daily act should support it cleanly, without creating friction of their own. The Kitchen Composter won the 2018 Good Design Award because it did exactly that: solved a real, recurring problem for the people managing it every day.
Design for Every Body. The Empty That Costs Nothing.
