It is definitely a scam, it doesn't decompost it just dries and grinds the material. That material would have to be rehydrated and properly decayed to become compost. Waste of time and money in my opinion
The way it works as it heats up the enter bucket while spinning the inside agitator and just evaporates the moisture out and as it dries at breaks up the pieces so it's effectively the same thing as laying your scraps out in the sun except chopped up and the electricity used to dry it will generate about a pound of CO2 every time you run it so it's far worse for the environment then putting it in the waist with the rest of your stuff or throwing the stuff out back for the critters to eat which is what I have been doing for the last 8 years and before that I put it down the garbage disposal
Turning food into dried out dead material over night only for the cost of the GLOBAL WARMING! If you want to compost it it has to get the water and flora and fauna back then it can compost as normal! IT ACHIEVES NOTHING! now if you want to dry out to save room in your bin......why bother!
I really wish people would sue these companies for the false advertising because they say it's a completely new take on composting or something like that and there's other products that do the exact same thing dating back more than 10 years.
So how does it work? This video is more of an infomercial as several other commenters have said. I get that it is costly ($399) as a first generation product ( think Tesla roadster) and that the aim is to reduce cost through 2nd generation design and scaling through volume. From what I can see it does the following functions: reduces input volume through mechanical chopping/grinding, controls odor through active filtering through a carbon filter, reduces moisture content through heat controlled evaporation, odor and biologics enhanced with additives agents. The most interesting parts to me are in the additive agents. The rest is straight forward engineering and manufacturing.
@@eriknippak5659 It is not really composting. It is drying and grinding . Erik you are right to be skeptical. It is NOT composting. What it does do, is makes it smaller and non-perishable, and allows you to put into soil where it can really be composted.
Great idea, right up there with the Garburator! WTF....Food waste is not garbage. Compostable plastic barely exists...sure might eventually....but my guess is bio plastics will be..well, bio plastic. This look like a flash in the proverbial pan. I probably get on at a garage sale in a year or two for 10$....if I want one.
He is lying so badly. I « pre-ordered » a Lomi in September with the advertised shipping in December. I got fully charged in January and I was told it would ship in 6 to 10 weeks. I emailed the company multiple times and it’s been the most frustrating experience ever. I finally canceled my order because I definitely was starting to think I was being scammed.
Plastic still has to break down. I “love” the fact that they focus on food waste. Food waste isn’t a problem in landfills. Animals and bacteria eat food. It still is being put back into the earth!! Another glorified blender. 👎
Some guy tested its compost and it did worse by adding this to soil. Epic fail with regards to getting it to enhance plant growth. Get a bin outside and save the electricity
I have been composting for over 20 years, it's easy to deal with vermin and prevent them. Site your composter on level ground. put in a base of a small mesh galvanised wire. Make sure the wire goes up the side of the composter 6 inches. Put rocks or bricks around the base. Job done. I've never had an issue with rats or mice.
Does it work? If it really does what he says it does, this is a good product imo. I would even recommend that it be put into every home developer's list of options along with dishwasher and 3d printer.
@@jasonusborne8629 it uses a ton of electricity to grind up and dehydrate food scraps. Not exactly green at all. Look at the Thunderf00t video debunking it and the other products that have come out over the years that did the exact same thing.
@@bonkbonk92 I suppose anyone of us could design and 3d print something like this too. But if I do not want to go through the trouble, and I have $500 to sink into something that is good for my soil, where's the harm in that? Unless electricity itself is a destructive force. But even if that were true, people are not going to give up enslaving electrons to feed our convenience machines and various other extensions. We will have to be zapped by the Sun before that happens. Say...
@@jasonusborne8629 the problem isn't that it uses electricity, the problem is that it uses a lot of power to heat it up and then they call it "green" when literally all you have to do is throw the food scraps in to a cheap compost tumbler and let the compost soil form. There's no advantage whatsoever to wasting electricity to dry it out, only to get wet again outside and break down in the exact same way it would in the tumbler. Plus the filters in the thing would add yet another consumable. Unless it's a fairly large HEPA filter, it's going to stink of whatever is in there that might already be partially rotten, just leke what happened with all the other devices that did the exact same thing as this. The only advantage is that it grinds the food matter to a sludge which can speed up decomposition. One could simply use a $10 garage sale food processor and dump it in to a compost container. There is no point to drying the stuff out only to have to scrape it from the machine.
Our factory produces this product, and I can explain how it works in general, because fruits and vegetables and kitchen waste also turn into soil in nature, and this product accelerates this process, just like catalysis in a chemical reaction, and there is no odor in the process. All in all, I think this is a very good product and has a great effect on improving the environment.
How exactly does it accelerate the process. Composting, which is the natural process of decomposition requires moisture. Lomi removes water in an energy hungry CO2 producing machine. Then before composting can happen the moisture needs to return. So, if anything Lomi slows the process down.
Lomi very carefully controlling the narrative. I have searched the Internet on how it actually works and every link I click on is a Lomi infomercial.
It is definitely a scam, it doesn't decompost it just dries and grinds the material. That material would have to be rehydrated and properly decayed to become compost. Waste of time and money in my opinion
The way it works as it heats up the enter bucket while spinning the inside agitator and just evaporates the moisture out and as it dries at breaks up the pieces so it's effectively the same thing as laying your scraps out in the sun except chopped up and the electricity used to dry it will generate about a pound of CO2 every time you run it so it's far worse for the environment then putting it in the waist with the rest of your stuff or throwing the stuff out back for the critters to eat which is what I have been doing for the last 8 years and before that I put it down the garbage disposal
Turning food into dried out dead material over night only for the cost of the GLOBAL WARMING!
If you want to compost it it has to get the water and flora and fauna back then it can compost as normal! IT ACHIEVES NOTHING!
now if you want to dry out to save room in your bin......why bother!
It's all about the sell brother...
I really wish people would sue these companies for the false advertising because they say it's a completely new take on composting or something like that and there's other products that do the exact same thing dating back more than 10 years.
So how does it work? This video is more of an infomercial as several other commenters have said. I get that it is costly ($399) as a first generation product ( think Tesla roadster) and that the aim is to reduce cost through 2nd generation design and scaling through volume. From what I can see it does the following functions: reduces input volume through mechanical chopping/grinding, controls odor through active filtering through a carbon filter, reduces moisture content through heat controlled evaporation, odor and biologics enhanced with additives agents. The most interesting parts to me are in the additive agents. The rest is straight forward engineering and manufacturing.
Glad he clarified the composting bit.
Can you show me the minute marker where the science of 80% composting overnight was achieved? I totally missed it.
@@eriknippak5659 It is not really composting. It is drying and grinding . Erik you are right to be skeptical. It is NOT composting. What it does do, is makes it smaller and non-perishable, and allows you to put into soil where it can really be composted.
For those with green bins, this is a $olution looking for a problem.
Great idea, right up there with the Garburator! WTF....Food waste is not garbage. Compostable plastic barely exists...sure might eventually....but my guess is bio plastics will be..well, bio plastic. This look like a flash in the proverbial pan. I probably get on at a garage sale in a year or two for 10$....if I want one.
does the lomi use a lot of electricity?
What sets you apart from a food processor?
hmm, ... ever put Avocado 'seeds' into your food processor? ... what about 'recyclable plastics'? Shirley you jest?
@@tracer740 u can't actually put 🥑 pits in the Lomi 😂
He is lying so badly. I « pre-ordered » a Lomi in September with the advertised shipping in December. I got fully charged in January and I was told it would ship in 6 to 10 weeks. I emailed the company multiple times and it’s been the most frustrating experience ever. I finally canceled my order because I definitely was starting to think I was being scammed.
Dealing with compostable plastics is my biggest draw to the Lomi.
Plastic still has to break down.
I “love” the fact that they focus on food waste. Food waste isn’t a problem in landfills. Animals and bacteria eat food. It still is being put back into the earth!!
Another glorified blender. 👎
the energy and money you used to run this thing is equal or more than what you you've would use if you didn't use this. so absolutely ZERO
Some guy tested its compost and it did worse by adding this to soil. Epic fail with regards to getting it to enhance plant growth. Get a bin outside and save the electricity
My neighbor has been into composting for many years and has a huge rat problem.
I have been composting for over 20 years, it's easy to deal with vermin and prevent them. Site your composter on level ground. put in a base of a small mesh galvanised wire. Make sure the wire goes up the side of the composter 6 inches. Put rocks or bricks around the base. Job done. I've never had an issue with rats or mice.
You're telling me if I drop a shampoo bottle in there it will break it down into a compost???
No, no, it has to be approved bioplastics. And I'm assuming it has to be rinsed out first.
Sort of makes it sound so....but, no...
how much energy is used? This does not seem "green" friendly - when the earth does it naturally for 0 power.
How is he cofounder of a company that was already 5 years old? Right?
Right?
Cheap components, student CAD modelers, outsourcing and crowdfunding = cash grab. Reminds me of the movie "The Producers."
Does it work? If it really does what he says it does, this is a good product imo. I would even recommend that it be put into every home developer's list of options along with dishwasher and 3d printer.
@@jasonusborne8629 it uses a ton of electricity to grind up and dehydrate food scraps. Not exactly green at all. Look at the Thunderf00t video debunking it and the other products that have come out over the years that did the exact same thing.
@@bonkbonk92 Is using electricity now considered harmful? Hmm. Depends upon the source. Even then, what exactly IS electricity anyway?
@@bonkbonk92 I suppose anyone of us could design and 3d print something like this too. But if I do not want to go through the trouble, and I have $500 to sink into something that is good for my soil, where's the harm in that? Unless electricity itself is a destructive force. But even if that were true, people are not going to give up enslaving electrons to feed our convenience machines and various other extensions. We will have to be zapped by the Sun before that happens. Say...
@@jasonusborne8629 the problem isn't that it uses electricity, the problem is that it uses a lot of power to heat it up and then they call it "green" when literally all you have to do is throw the food scraps in to a cheap compost tumbler and let the compost soil form. There's no advantage whatsoever to wasting electricity to dry it out, only to get wet again outside and break down in the exact same way it would in the tumbler. Plus the filters in the thing would add yet another consumable. Unless it's a fairly large HEPA filter, it's going to stink of whatever is in there that might already be partially rotten, just leke what happened with all the other devices that did the exact same thing as this. The only advantage is that it grinds the food matter to a sludge which can speed up decomposition. One could simply use a $10 garage sale food processor and dump it in to a compost container. There is no point to drying the stuff out only to have to scrape it from the machine.
Wow overnight results is interesting
Lomi is carefully controlling the narrative. Every Internet link I’ve clicked on to do research on how this works, has been an infomercial.
I think they should be scaled up to become a city feature.
scam
This was very informative, thank you! Just purchased mine and wanted to learn more about it
I have been looking for smart one like this god I'm glad someone did it 👍
Uh-oh! If it's from "god", ... then it's a scam.
The idea it's great but it's doesn't mean I will buy
Our factory produces this product, and I can explain how it works in general, because fruits and vegetables and kitchen waste also turn into soil in nature, and this product accelerates this process, just like catalysis in a chemical reaction, and there is no odor in the process. All in all, I think this is a very good product and has a great effect on improving the environment.
I wonder if I can use my pressure cooker (Instant Pot) like this to treat my kitchen waste?
"this product accelerates this process"
WROING IT SLOWS IT DOWN!
How exactly does it accelerate the process. Composting, which is the natural process of decomposition requires moisture. Lomi removes water in an energy hungry CO2 producing machine. Then before composting can happen the moisture needs to return. So, if anything Lomi slows the process down.
Shark tank
CopyCat of FOODCYCLER FC50
The more the better. Will drive prices down.
^
This sounds more like a biological breakdown than the Foodcycler. Also, Foodcycler doesn't do compostable plastics.
@11:20 ''...every house in America, in every house in Canada, ..."
Reality check: "Canada is in "America".
While you are technically correct, it is commom vernacular to use the nickname "America" for the United States of America.