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Food Waste Caddy

Food Waste Caddy shows low returns (1.1%), but soft demand (-2.2% this quarter) keeps it on the watch list.

Flapen Score

55
Worth a look

Top 33% of 5,777 Home & Garden niches · +4 vs the category median of 51

Market size 70Growth 24Conversion 62Competition 70Returns 92Price range 67Avg price 50Brand share 41Review moat 32Quality gap 37
This niche Category average · 5,777 niches

Is Food Waste Caddy profitable on Amazon?

According to Flapen's Amazon United Kingdom niche tracking, Food Waste Caddy is a £732K/yr Amazon United Kingdom market (1.1M searches/yr). The top 5 brands hold 80% of demand. Verdict: Worth a look — 55/100.

Food Waste Caddy: the Amazon niche in one read

Everything a seller checks before entering, in three answers.

Is the demand real?

Worth a look. Search demand moved -2.2% over the last 90 days and 5.5% of searches end in a purchase.

£732K

revenue / yr

Units sold / yr60K
Search volume / yr-2.2%1.1M
Conversion rate5.5%
Avg price£12.02

Who owns the niche?

The top 5 brands hold 80% of demand, so 20% of the market is open.

20%

open market share

Brands · sellers18 · 124
Top-5 product click share43%
Open market20%
Avg brand age38 months

Is there a way in?

Listing quality. The average product page scores 0/100 on content standards. Incumbents average 4.5★ — the gap to enter on.

0/100

page quality · 34 products

Sponsored placement65%
New entrants (1y)3· 2 succeeded
Avg rating4.5★
Avg reviews3,277

Top Food Waste Caddy products & what they sell for

Every tracked product — its share of the shelf, its review moat, and what it sells for.

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take 43% of clicks — established leaders, but buyers still shop beyond them.

£0£22K£44K£66K£88K101001K10K100K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

18 falling

Sellers

124

Top-5 brand share

80%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

43%

Top 20: 87%

Open market

17%

  • Addis34%
  • Minky19%
  • Joseph Joseph15%
  • Tydi9%
  • CURVER3%
  • Brabantia3%
  • Open — no brand owns it (12 brands, 17%)

Food Waste Caddy demand & seasonality

Weekly search volume, with the niche's key stats alongside.

Volume1.1MCVR5.5%Products34Brands18Top 5 Brands80%OOS Rate2.6%Rating4.5★Reviews3,277Avg BSR#19
30K20KSpike '25Prime Day '25Spike '26Prime Day '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

No pronounced peak months · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.7×

Top Food Waste Caddy search terms shoppers use

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

  • food waste bin280K/yr
  • food waste caddy153K/yr
  • food bin126K/yr
  • food caddy78K/yr
  • food caddy bins for kitchen88K/yr
  • kitchen food waste caddy52K/yr
  • kitchen compost bin39K/yr
  • caddy bin41K/yr
  • compost caddy30K/yr
  • compost bins for kitchen46K/yr

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Food Waste Caddy

What buyers mention most, as a share of all reviews.

What buyers love

76% of reviews
Size-Overall15%

Perfect size

Quality-Overall14%

Excellent product

Ease Of Use9%

This is very handy

Ease Of Cleaning8%

keeps it clean

Advertised Vs Actual Product7%

Exactly what I needed

What buyers complain about

61% of reviews
Size-Overall18%

It's small

Quality-Overall9%

Pretty rubbish I'm afraid

Strength7%

Not sturdy enough

Smell6%

It contains the smell

Ease Of Use5%

We too began to struggle

Food Waste Caddy return rate & reasons

Why buyers send it back, as a share of all return requests.

1.1%

Return rate

72%

Fixable by listing

The "fixable" share counts expectation-mismatch reasons — size, look, advertised-vs-actual — that better copy and images address.

1Size-Overall
52%
2Color
6%
3Defective Material/Parts
6%
4Bin Capacity
5%
5Functionality-Overall
3%

Common Food Waste Caddy questions

The questions sellers ask about this niche, answered from the tracked metrics.

Flapen scores Food Waste Caddy 55/100 on Amazon United Kingdom — Worth a look. The niche generates £732K/yr across 34 tracked products. 2 of 3 products launched in the last 360 days are still selling. Search demand moved -2.2% over the last 90 days.
Search demand for Food Waste Caddy on Amazon United Kingdom is steady year-round — the busiest month runs 1.7× the quietest.