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Sharps Bin

Fail

Prices span $4.14–$7.71, mostly outside the sweet spot, so Sharps Bin is a Fail.

Flapen Score
45
45 / 100
Ranks 1,255 of 2,035 Health & Personal Care niches · −3 vs the category median of 48
Market size
£284K/yr383K searches / yr
90-day growth
+10.2%search demand this quarter
Competition
84%top-5 click share · 6 brands · 42 sellers

Flapen Score

Sharps Bin against its category

The dotted line is the Health & Personal Care average. Past it, Sharps Bin is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

45Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Sharps Bin market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Sharps Bin 383K times last year and spent an estimated £284K. The top 5 brands take 97% of clicks. Flapen scores it 45 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

An estimated 14.1% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 383K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. An estimated 14.1% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved +10.2% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £284K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
383K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
+10.2%
Conversion, latest week
14.1%
Market size, estimated
£284Ka year
Peak month
May1.9× the quietest month
Top search term
sharps bin179K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £5.27.

Listings sell for £5.27 on average, from £4.14 to £7.71. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 50K to 60K a year. The average listing sells 5,000 to 6,000 of them. At £5.27 that is £26K to £32K a year per listing.

Average price
£5.27under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£4.14–£7.71
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
50K–60K
Units per listing a year
5,000–6,000
Revenue per listing a year
£26K–£32K
Returns
0.1%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is low.

20% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 90% ship with Prime. On an average day, 7.7% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #8 within Medical Supplies & Equipment. It carries 437 reviews at 4.45 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
20%
Prime listings
90%
Out of stock, average day
7.7%
Average rank
#8in Medical Supplies & Equipment
Average rating
4.45 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
437per listing
Listings tracked
10

04 · Newcomers

0 of last year's 2 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

2 products launched here in the last 12 months. 0 of them cleared the first-year sales bar, our mark for a successful launch. The brands on the shelf have sold for 34 months on average, so a newcomer is not facing entrenched names.

Launched, last 12 months
2
Successful launches
0Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
34 months

Products

Top Sharps Bin products & what they sell for

The products selling here, as shoppers see them on Amazon. Shelf share and sales are our estimates.

Prices and ratings read from Amazon on Jul 24, 2026. The live listing can differ.

Competition

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take an estimated 84% of clicks. A locked shelf that new listings rarely crack.

£0£43K£85K£128K£170K101001K10K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

6 falling

Sellers

42

Est. top-5 brand share

97%

Top 20: 100%

Est. top-5 click share

84%

Top 20: 100%

Open market

0%

  • SHARPSGUARD48%
  • Sharpsafe29%
  • Daniel's9%
  • G&N8%
  • Frontier3%
  • Sharpsguard3%

Demand

Sharps Bin search demand

Weekly searches over the year, seasonality beneath. Pick a range.

9K7KSpike '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

No pronounced peak months · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.9×

Search terms

Top Sharps Bin search terms shoppers use

The exact words shoppers type, with estimated yearly volume, growth, and conversion.

  • sharps bin179K/yr
  • sharps bin small48K/yr
  • sharps box32K/yr
  • sharps box for needles31K/yr
  • needle bin15K/yr
  • small sharps bin14K/yr
  • sharps bins5K/yr
  • sharps container7K/yr
  • needle box6K/yr
  • needle disposal box6K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Sharps Bin

We read the reviews and the return reasons for every product selling here.

22%of positive reviews mention “Quality-Overall”
34%of negative reviews mention “Size-Overall”
0.1%of orders come back
“does not fit well”
A buyer, on “Size-Overall”34% of negative reviews mention the same topic

Every topic

Every topic buyers talk about, one row each.

Red shows the share of negative reviews and green the share of positive reviews, biggest topic first. Open a row to read what they wrote.

18 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Sharps Bin questions

Answered from the same tracked data.

Figures on this page are estimates modeled from public Amazon pages and third-party keyword data. Amazon does not supply them, and no connected seller's data is used. How we handle Amazon data