lomi – Cashback, Rebates & Rewards

Purchased on Indegogo, it was delivered in September 2022. Has been used 3 times a week every week. About 10 days ago the drive paddle broke. Thought that was it. Pela Lomi (the UK office) ordered a replacement bucket free of charge. This was delivered a week after the problem arose. Ths is great sevice for a well thought out product. It is now back working on our food waste.

I have had my Lomi for only a few weeks, and I am on my fourth run. So far, so good, although I am concerned about the other reviews here that refer to breakdowns and customer service. I bought my Lomi from an "open box" offer, so it was a lot less than MSRP, and I got an older model, not the one with the see-through lid. It is noisy. The noise is the equivalent to a dishwasher. However, a dishwasher runs for, what, about 50 minutes? The Lomi's grow cycle runs for nearly 1 full day. It's annoying in my small house. I moved it to the basement, where it is happily converting my bio garbage into dirt for my plants. So, 4 stars for the noise; 5 stars for the 24 hours to dirt experience.

We love it. It works exactly as they said. It’s pretty quiet too. Reduces kitchen waste into useful compost

We use ours everyday at least once and we love it. We live in a multi resident building and taking out the compost has always been a messy pain. We scan fit at least 4 bags of wet stinky veggie/fruit/compost into one simple bag of dirt. The fertilizer is really powerful so we almost killed some of our indoor plants. The support is FANTASTIC! We had a fan issue, they sent us a replacement which worked fine for four months and then it happened again and they sent a new unit right away. No problems since. We love, love our Lomi. We recommend it highly.

I bought the Lomi second hand -- so there is that -- I paid about half of what it sells for new, so I have less cause for disappointment. Like many people I thought that the Lomi would actually produce compost, which is does not. It dries and shreds your scraps only. So if you do place in planting boxes/beds, you'll just get mold once you water them. If you compost a lot, you're going to have a lot of ground-up scraps that are ready to be composted, and you need to be able to put them somewhere! I am leaving 4 stars because I do think there is a niche market that Lomi can be helpful for -- and that is apartment dwellers in cold-climate dense cities who are seriously about composting (and willing to do the extra work to take care of the pre-compost that Lomi creates). I compost for a whole office floor in NYC, and though I have limited space for tumblers, they slow down in winter. So I found that Lomi has helped me reduce the size of my pre-compost so that I can do it year-round. I've also been using it nonstop, and it hasn't been giving me any issues. For anyone with a little outdoor space, however (and less compost load), I recommend getting into actual composting -- as its much more rewarding. What is sad about the Lomi is that its marketing is misleading, and that means the company is spending precious resources to manufacturer and ship a product that will ultimately be thrown into landfills. You certain can't compost your Lomi....