Eight years ago I bought a garden hand scoop in a fairly premium brand, with a heavy plastic handle. I've kept it in my garden shed ("Oakhurst") with my other garden tools. I used it very infrequently.
For the past 4 years, it has become unusable because the vinyl plastic handle has been oozing sticky plasticizers. If I merely pick it up I then have to wash my hands about 3 times before I get the sticky material off.
Meanwhile, a wood handled trowel I bought a few years later, is just like new, but it doesn't "scoop" very much soil at a time.
Perhaps it was just this brand (I can't remember what it was) but I'm not going to be buying any more plastic handled tools if I can avoid them. Perhaps if I stored them in the house they would be OK, but that's a lot of trouble and I don't like to bring dirty garden tools into the house.
Sadly there are few alternatives anymore, especially in garden scoops. Smaller trowels are easy to find with wood handles.
The manufacturers should understand that I normally use such tools with gloves anyway, so I don't need "padded plastic handles." I may even end up getting an all metal "ice" scoop.
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