Macs have had a trash can for over 25 years, but the OS still has no means for you to control what happens with the contents...other than just a manual "Empty Trash". Compost goes a long way to correcting this.

Windows' trash management at least provides you with options as the size of the trash. Mac OS never did, which may be considered odd, or perhaps it was just left as an opportunity for the likes of Compost.

You can tell Compost how long to leave stuff in the trash before it goes funky and has to be deleted. Or you can tell it how large the trash may be, in total or as a proportion of disk size. It can delete files securely if you need this. And, you can have different trash behavior for every connected drive.

$20 for a one-trick pony? It's worth it for me.