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If anyone here is interested in saving money, Amazon has electric compost bins for sale at $449.95.   Think of the money you can save by not buying fertilizer.     https://a.co/d/h17NIgU

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Oh Lordy, Lordy, Lordy!  (violently rolling my eyes) I.m surprised that my gardening students haven’t brought up this gem so far. I bet there are plenty of people who will buy them (sigh). Oooohhh, it’s so painful just to contemplate the thing.

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136 reviews and 80% are 5 stars.  My gosh people have money to waste.  And here is a quote from a purchaser:  "Pros: I am impressed with this product, as it can process whole watermelon skins, chicken bones, etc., without fail. Cons: I would like to use the result as fertilizer for plants, but I quickly realized that the end product is dehydrated/roasted food pieces. Mixing it in the ground soil attracts so many ants, and even my dog is trying to dig it up. Therefore, I wouldn't recommend it to people hoping to use it for this purpose."  

So, to summarize, $450 to make compost you can't use (of course, you can actually use it).    

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The reduction in volume by dehydrating the kitchen waste and grinding up the desiccated material are the nutrients as available as compost made the old-fashioned way? My compost container sits in the mud-room and I carry it out on my way to work to the worm bin or composter, let it air out and bring it back in when I get home. 450.00 buys me 15 trees.

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I doubt it's really aimed at people who garden. The "compost" idea I expect is just a way to green it up.

Some places have some really fussy rules about what kinds of trash can go into which trash stream, ones with "food waste" rules might find dehydrated ash doesn't count, or you can just throw handfuls outside without upsetting the neighbors.

There's places you have to take your trash to a disposal point and/or you are charged by volume or weight. If you're generating a lot of food scrap it might look appealing if you ignored the upfront cost.
 
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After all this is the ECO 5 we are talking about.  Isn’t  $500.00 a small price to save the environment?   Of course, I suppose we may have to consider the plastic it is made from.

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I wonder if some folks who purchase this product do so because of some perceived negative to handling compost inputs and a pile.

If so, it may be much like managing human waste (so called) in a different way than contaminating a bowl of drinking water and flushing it away.

I know 2 different families that have these. The explanation I got from one was that it was on sale for half off. The other told me they were too lazy to manage a pile. I did not ask any follow up questions and now I see I should have.

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Yes, I knew I had read something, somewhere, more outlandish than buying one of these expensive contraptions.

Evidently, this company sells you a dehydrator to dehydrate your scraps and then you mail the scraps to them to grind up and sell to someone else as chicken feed.

https://www.thelunaticfarmer.com/blog/1/4/2024/shipping-garbage

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For my current circumstance I don't think it is something I would purchase. If I lived in an apartment I might.
https://www.compostmagazine.com/are-electric-composters-worth-it/

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I'm saving my money for an electronic H2O moisture meter
 
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I would never own a composter that doesn't have Bluetooth and an app.
 
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It's more like a dehydeator + grinder. One can mix the fine powder in soil and let it decompose by soil biota. Not something you can plant directly in as with real compost.

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Douglas Alpenstock wrote:I would never own a composter that doesn't have Bluetooth and an app.

LOLOLOL

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