OK, if you follow me on Instagram or Twitter, you’ve likely seen me raving about my new kitchen appliance.
Meet Lomi!
This post isn’t sponsored and there are no affiliate links in here. I just genuinely LOVE this product and wanted to rave about it!
Lomi is a kitchen-top composter from Pela, that company that’s pretty popular for its biodegradable bioplastic phone cases.
Lomi works to keep kitchen waste out of landfills by turning food scraps into compost by heating, grinding and mixing.
It can also break down bioplastics!
Ryan and I try as hard as we can to be as sustainable as possible, so as soon as we heard about Lomi last fall, the decision to order one for our house was a no-brainer.
Ryan and I have been paying monthly for semi-weekly compost pickup from a local company.
But, if we can just compost ourselves, right on our countertop? Why not! We did the math, and the Lomi would pay for itself after 13 months of use since we’d no longer have to pay our monthly compost bill. Plus… we’d get to keep the compost!
We JUST built a little raised garden bed in our side yard, so we’re super excited about the idea of creating our own compost for it.
After six months of not-so-patiently waiting, our Lomi finally arrived!
We’ve had it for about a month now, and so far, we LOVE it.
First, the shipping. Lomi was packaged fairly sustainably! The only thing that went in the landfill was the packing tape. All the other packaging was either recyclable or bioplastic…
…which we threw straight into our Lomi.
Ryan and I eat a LOT of produce, so we run our Lomi three to four times a week.
So far, we’ve tried…
…citrus and cheese rinds, apple and pear cores, banana, carrot, beet and potato peels, coffee grounds and filters, tea bags, celery roots, onion, avocado and garlic skins, bioplastic bags, eggshells, dead houseplants and flowers, broccoli and kale stalks, broccoli stalks and lettuce leaves, among other things.
Lomi has three modes: “express,” “grow” and “Lomi-approved.”
We primarily use both “grow” and “Lomi-approved.” “Grow” mode runs at a lower temperature for a longer amount of time to preserve a lot of the food nutrients in the finished compost. “Lomi-approved” runs shorter and hotter, and MUST be used to break down bioplastics.
We used “Lomi-approved” mode on the above photos, since we had a bioplastic bag in our mix.
Lomi is a little bit (luckily, we have a LOT of countertop space so we aren’t too concerned) and is a little louder than we thought it would be, but neither of us really mind it.
If you’re short on counter space and don’t generate a ton of compost, you could probably put this thing in a garage or in your laundry room to run, but we run ours so often that it just stays on our counter top next to our produce basket and blender.
We’ve started dumping our Lomi dirt into a trash can in our shed while we wait for growing season, so we can use it in our garden.
Anyway, just wanted to share! Ryan and I are always looking for ways to reduce our household’s carbon footprint, so I just HAD to rave about how much I love our new Lomi.
