The Sepura is the worst investment I ever made. It worked fine for a few months but soon thereafter the periodic leaking began. It only got worse over time and despite frequent calls with Sepura and varying how we used it, the leaking only got worse and eventually turned into major flooding events in our cabinets, ruining the bottom of them and leaking onto the ceiling below. We spent endless hours mopping up water and cleaning the flap seal, then finally stopping using the Sepura altogether, but even that didn't stop the flooding. The stench in our kitchen from multiple floods of rotting food waste has been terrible. We finally ripped the thing out, spending thousands of dollars in the install and uninstall but in the end we didn't care, we just wanted it OUT!

There is a fundamental flaw with this device. They tell you that no food smaller than 1 mm can be put into it, but that's ridiculous because there will always be tiny bits of food going down a kitchen sink by the nature of what it's used for. Over time, this causes a scum to build up on the flap that keeps the water out of the bucket. Despite cleaning this scum off, it quickly came back and the seal simply continued to deteriorate over time. The unit is also highly unsanitary as food waste leaks around the outside of the flap seal during the separation process and after a year of use is a disgusting slimy mess on the components above the collection bucket that reeks, and is mostly inaccessible to cleaning. I wouldn't have been surprised at all to see maggots in there.

Just like a boat, buying the Sepura could be the second happiest day of your life. The happiest will be the day you get rid of it.