Black Handy Hoop Ring Sack Bin Refuse Garbage Bag Holder Plastic with Handle New

I bought a litter picker on Black Friday and found it was quite tricky to get the litter in the bag that I was carrying so I popped onto Amazon and found this tool for keeping the bag open while you carry it. It's great! I've picked up 3 or 4 bags of litter with it and with the litter picker, it saves on bending up and down all the time. GOOD: It was easy to get the bags on the ring. There are semi-circular clips on the hoop that you pull up from the inside side of the hoop, put the bag in, then then press them back down to secure the bag. And you're off! The foam handle helps with grip, especially if you are wearing gloves. It's going to make litter picking much easier and save me time too! BAD?: The clips look like plastic and although they have a hinge I wonder how robust they are. They look like they may break if you open them too far, if not immediately, then in the future after repeated use. I will probably be using it on a 2 or 3 monthly basis to pick up a few bags of litter, so it's not going to get heavy use, so time will tell about the clips. Although the foam handle is great, I also wonder if it will start to disintegrate. I will try and put up another report in the future.

Six months I’ve been using one and I admire the simplicity and usefulness every time I walk past it. I use it for transparent recycling bags, hang it on the inside back door handle and just pitch stuff in each time I pass. Somehow, no doubt after very careful calculations and testing, the neck of the ring always holds the bag open at the top so I can get a hole in one and even as the bag fills, the sponge grip on the ring keeps the bag firmly held to the door handle, without fail.

Good and handy

I have just been using an empty bin bag for my cardboard and recyclable items, then when full taking it out to the blue bin, as a lot of items are bulky even when crushed i felt there was no point in getting a second bin, ordered this and its brilliant, large bin bags fit around the edge clips almost perfectly and i just hang it in the hall, so much easier to use and store, its light and strong so I would highly recommend.

I purchased my first "Handy Hoop" in February 2019 and was very pleased with it. The hoop was a reasonable size and thickness. The litter bags stayed in place well, until they were about half full and then the weight of the bags would cause them slip out of the green, holding rings. Initially, this was very irritating, until I realised that, if I filled the bags to the top, they were too heavy for me to carry, so, half-full, two-thirds-full, were better options for me. I purchased a second ring a few days ago - May 2020 - , ( for my sister, who has joined me on my litter-lifting outings), and I am very dissapointed with what was sent to me. The new design rings are not the same as the image shown in the listing, and definitely not the same as the ring I purchased last year. The new rings are thinner, the foam "grip" handle, is smaller, and not as comfortable to hold as the original design. The biggest problem with the new design, is that the green rings that hold the litter bag in place, are nearly impossible to lift off of the hoop, and almost as hard to get back on again. I had to use a flat-head screwdriver to get the green rings to open, so that I could put the litter bag onto the hoop. Whoever designed the new rings, needs to go and sit on the naughty step for a while, and then change the design back to what it was before.

Most useful gadget for doing litter picking, stops the wind from blowing bag closed. Great price.

I only thought of buying this extra because at the bottom of the litter picker bumpf it said "frequently bought together with this item". I must say, that was an absolutely brilliant suggestion. Most of us have at one time or another probably experienced how it takes more hands than we are naturally endowed with to pick something up, re-open a flimsy bin liner with every intended deposit, and then deposit the item. This product works like a dream. A small suggestion, (since there are no instructions), the hoop is smaller than the average bin liner, so, wrap the excess bin liner around the soft padded handle. This helps distribute the weight of the litter better, since bin liners are extremely flimsy and can't take much uneven weight without tearing. I don't think anyone would regret buying this most useful and simple adjunct. A litter picker's dream !

Should be useful, a little flimsy but it should be fine if treated carefully.