For new orders placed today, we’re estimating that they’ll be ready to ship in 11 - 14 weeks.
We'll give you a heads-up when your bin is ready, in case you need to change your info. Cancel anytime before your bin ships for a complete refund.
For new orders placed today, we’re estimating that they’ll be ready to ship in 11 - 14 weeks.
We'll give you a heads-up when your bin is ready, in case you need to change your info. Cancel anytime before your bin ships for a complete refund.
At Mill, we’re doing things a little bit differently. The bin is only one part of your service plan — and can’t be purchased separately.
It’s a service because the management of wasted food is bigger than any single device. The average household will generate 150-200 lbs of Food Grounds per year. Mill helps our customers manage that volume and put it to good use. It's not just a better kitchen experience; it's also a fully closed loop.
Your all-in-one service plan also includes:
At Mill, we’re doing things a little bit differently. The bin is only one part of your service plan — and can’t be purchased separately.
It’s a service because the management of wasted food is bigger than any single device. The average household will generate 150-200 lbs of Food Grounds per year. Mill helps our customers manage that volume and put it to good use. It's not just a better kitchen experience; it's also a fully closed loop.
Your all-in-one service plan also includes:
The Mill kitchen bin recycles kitchen scraps into dried, ground-up food that we call Food Grounds. Food Grounds are still food, minus the water, bulk, odor, and ick.
Food Grounds aren’t compost. Compost is produced when microbes digest organic matter, which takes weeks or months, not hours — despite what others might say. While Food Grounds can be made into compost or added to your garden, it is a delicate process that can result in mold, cause odors, and attract pests.
Sending us your Food Grounds is not required, but we highly recommend it. According to the EPA and the UN, the best and highest use for uneaten food — after feeding people — is feeding animals that help to feed people. When you send us your Food Grounds, we turn them into food for chickens, providing the greatest possible impact.
The Mill kitchen bin recycles kitchen scraps into dried, ground-up food that we call Food Grounds. Food Grounds are still food, minus the water, bulk, odor, and ick.
Food Grounds aren’t compost. Compost is produced when microbes digest organic matter, which takes weeks or months, not hours — despite what others might say. While Food Grounds can be made into compost or added to your garden, it is a delicate process that can result in mold, cause odors, and attract pests.
Sending us your Food Grounds is not required, but we highly recommend it. According to the EPA and the UN, the best and highest use for uneaten food — after feeding people — is feeding animals that help to feed people. When you send us your Food Grounds, we turn them into food for chickens, providing the greatest possible impact.
We can turn them into food for chickens
Mill is a complete service designed to get uneaten food back to the farm as food for chickens. Your service includes Food Grounds home pickup (just request it in the app) with postage-paid boxes and liners. We receive shipped Food Grounds at our feed manufacturing facility where we turn them into a safe and nutritious chicken feed ingredient through inspection, screening, heating, and blending.
You can use them to supplement your backyard chickens’ diet
Remember that your Food Grounds are a mix of the food you couldn’t or didn’t eat and best used as a feed ingredient, not a full feed. You likely want to include other feed in your chickens’ diet too. It may also be best to not add any foods that you wouldn’t feed directly to your chickens if you didn’t have a Mill bin— this is not the case when you send Food Grounds to us because concentrations of these foods in our final commercial feed are negligible, rendering them harmless.
You can use them in your garden
If you decide to use Food Grounds in your garden, you should be aware of the volume of Food Grounds you are generating and the needs of your garden (e.g., garden size, weather, etc.). You can send us excess Food Grounds anytime. For backyard composting, you will need to add water to your dried-and-ground Food Grounds before adding them to your pile, which may cause mold, odor, or attract critters.
The average Mill customer will produce 150-200 lbs of Food Grounds per year. Don’t worry — we’ll take whatever you can’t feed to your flock or use in your garden and we'll make sure they stay in the food system.
We can turn them into food for chickens
Mill is a complete service designed to get uneaten food back to the farm as food for chickens. Your service includes Food Grounds home pickup (just request it in the app) with postage-paid boxes and liners. We receive shipped Food Grounds at our feed manufacturing facility where we turn them into a safe and nutritious chicken feed ingredient through inspection, screening, heating, and blending.
You can use them to supplement your backyard chickens’ diet
Remember that your Food Grounds are a mix of the food you couldn’t or didn’t eat and best used as a feed ingredient, not a full feed. You likely want to include other feed in your chickens’ diet too. It may also be best to not add any foods that you wouldn’t feed directly to your chickens if you didn’t have a Mill bin— this is not the case when you send Food Grounds to us because concentrations of these foods in our final commercial feed are negligible, rendering them harmless.
You can use them in your garden
If you decide to use Food Grounds in your garden, you should be aware of the volume of Food Grounds you are generating and the needs of your garden (e.g., garden size, weather, etc.). You can send us excess Food Grounds anytime. For backyard composting, you will need to add water to your dried-and-ground Food Grounds before adding them to your pile, which may cause mold, odor, or attract critters.
The average Mill customer will produce 150-200 lbs of Food Grounds per year. Don’t worry — we’ll take whatever you can’t feed to your flock or use in your garden and we'll make sure they stay in the food system.
The food we throw away is still food. It takes a lot of land, water, fertilizer, and effort to get food from the farm to our tables — so it’s important for our food to stay in the food system. There are ways to make the best use of food that’s uneaten. First, feed people. Then, feed animals that produce food for people. Both options align with the EPA’s food recovery hierarchy and the hierarchy of destinations for achieving United Nations Sustainable Development Goal Target 12.3.
We receive shipped Food Grounds at our feed manufacturing facility where we turn them into a safe chicken feed ingredient through inspection, screening, heating, and blending.
We’ve worked through most of the necessary scientific and regulatory processes to distribute our nutritious chicken feed ingredient commercially. We’ll share more on our progress later this year!
The food we throw away is still food. It takes a lot of land, water, fertilizer, and effort to get food from the farm to our tables — so it’s important for our food to stay in the food system. There are ways to make the best use of food that’s uneaten. First, feed people. Then, feed animals that produce food for people. Both options align with the EPA’s food recovery hierarchy and the hierarchy of destinations for achieving United Nations Sustainable Development Goal Target 12.3.
We receive shipped Food Grounds at our feed manufacturing facility where we turn them into a safe chicken feed ingredient through inspection, screening, heating, and blending.
We’ve worked through most of the necessary scientific and regulatory processes to distribute our nutritious chicken feed ingredient commercially. We’ll share more on our progress later this year!
We designed the Mill kitchen bin to shrink, dry and de-smellify kitchen scraps as efficiently as possible via long, low-energy cycles. Your energy use will depend on the amount and kind of kitchen scraps you add to it. We estimate the bin will use around 1 kilowatt-hour (kWh) of electricity per day, averaged over multiple weeks of usage (if you generate around 1.5 lbs of kitchen scraps per day). Today, that’s about the same amount of energy per day as an energy-efficient dishwasher, but with software updates, the bin will keep getting better and more efficient over time.
The cost of energy will depend on your local energy rates — you can check your energy bill to see how much you pay per kilowatt-hour (kWh). At $0.20 per kWh (approximately the national average), that’s about $6 per month.
Want to use less energy? Try limiting liquids by doing things like straining wet foods before adding the solids to the bucket.
Big picture: based on our preliminary study, you can avoid about a half-ton of greenhouse gas emissions per year with a Mill service plan. Instead of filling the air with methane, your kitchen scraps are turned into food for chickens, going right back into the food system. To learn more about the climate impact of an annual Mill service plan, click here.
We designed the Mill kitchen bin to shrink, dry and de-smellify kitchen scraps as efficiently as possible via long, low-energy cycles. Your energy use will depend on the amount and kind of kitchen scraps you add to it. We estimate the bin will use around 1 kilowatt-hour (kWh) of electricity per day, averaged over multiple weeks of usage (if you generate around 1.5 lbs of kitchen scraps per day). Today, that’s about the same amount of energy per day as an energy-efficient dishwasher, but with software updates, the bin will keep getting better and more efficient over time.
The cost of energy will depend on your local energy rates — you can check your energy bill to see how much you pay per kilowatt-hour (kWh). At $0.20 per kWh (approximately the national average), that’s about $6 per month.
Want to use less energy? Try limiting liquids by doing things like straining wet foods before adding the solids to the bucket.
Big picture: based on our preliminary study, you can avoid about a half-ton of greenhouse gas emissions per year with a Mill service plan. Instead of filling the air with methane, your kitchen scraps are turned into food for chickens, going right back into the food system. To learn more about the climate impact of an annual Mill service plan, click here.
You’ll be charged for the first billing period when you checkout. Your billing period will then start once your bin is delivered. Meaning that your renewal will be a month or a year after your bin is delivered, based on the plan you select.
You’ll be charged for the first billing period when you checkout. Your billing period will then start once your bin is delivered. Meaning that your renewal will be a month or a year after your bin is delivered, based on the plan you select.
You’ll know it’s time to empty the bin when the Food Grounds get close to the fill line inside the bucket.
Your service plan comes with prepaid boxes and liners that you can empty your Food Grounds into. The average household will need to empty their bin every 2-3 weeks, but it really depends on the amount of kitchen scraps you generate.
Each box holds about two bin-fulls. We recommend storing them in a dry place indoors with the bag liner closed until your box is ready for a full send!
You’ll know it’s time to empty the bin when the Food Grounds get close to the fill line inside the bucket.
Your service plan comes with prepaid boxes and liners that you can empty your Food Grounds into. The average household will need to empty their bin every 2-3 weeks, but it really depends on the amount of kitchen scraps you generate.
Each box holds about two bin-fulls. We recommend storing them in a dry place indoors with the bag liner closed until your box is ready for a full send!
We designed the Mill service plan to be the most practical way to manage kitchen scraps.
– Shrunk and de-smellified: Your service plan comes with a food-recycling Mill kitchen bin that shrinks, dries and de-smellifies your kitchen scraps. No weird smells. No drippy bags. – Not-so-picky-eater: Unlike compost, the bin can handle whatever you can’t eat — even meat and dairy products. – Fewer trips to the bin: Add kitchen scraps to your bin all day, every day. The bucket can collect dry, compact Food Grounds for weeks without needing to be emptied. And you don’t need any additives. – Year-round service: You can ship your Food Grounds to Mill even in the winter when curbside compost collection services may not be available. – Impact tracking: See the amount of kitchen scraps you’re adding and learn ways to improve your climate impact over time.
We designed the Mill service plan to be the most practical way to manage kitchen scraps.
– Shrunk and de-smellified: Your service plan comes with a food-recycling Mill kitchen bin that shrinks, dries and de-smellifies your kitchen scraps. No weird smells. No drippy bags. – Not-so-picky-eater: Unlike compost, the bin can handle whatever you can’t eat — even meat and dairy products. – Fewer trips to the bin: Add kitchen scraps to your bin all day, every day. The bucket can collect dry, compact Food Grounds for weeks without needing to be emptied. And you don’t need any additives. – Year-round service: You can ship your Food Grounds to Mill even in the winter when curbside compost collection services may not be available. – Impact tracking: See the amount of kitchen scraps you’re adding and learn ways to improve your climate impact over time.
We design and test every Mill kitchen bin to be durable and long-lasting. And because using a Mill kitchen bin requires a Mill service plan, all bins are eventually returned to us.
This service plan model enables us to support every Mill kitchen bin through its lifecycle, from shipping and first use to refurbishment and extended use.
We ensure that no bin is unaccounted for, abandoned, or wasted, and are developing programs for bins that are no longer used for active Mill customers, specifically education programs with non-profits. If you have any suggestions on organizations we should engage, please contact us.
We design and test every Mill kitchen bin to be durable and long-lasting. And because using a Mill kitchen bin requires a Mill service plan, all bins are eventually returned to us.
This service plan model enables us to support every Mill kitchen bin through its lifecycle, from shipping and first use to refurbishment and extended use.
We ensure that no bin is unaccounted for, abandoned, or wasted, and are developing programs for bins that are no longer used for active Mill customers, specifically education programs with non-profits. If you have any suggestions on organizations we should engage, please contact us.
Composting is a form of biological digestion that breaks down organic material and takes weeks or months, not hours or days. Be wary of any claims to the contrary.
The food-recycling Mill kitchen bin isn’t a composting device. The Food Grounds that come out of the bin are still food, minus the water, bulk, odor, and ick. The bin is designed to conserve all the potential in your kitchen scraps — not break them down — so we can keep them in the food system.
On top of that, we designed the Mill kitchen bin to be so much more practical and convenient than any other way of managing kitchen scraps.
Composting is a form of biological digestion that breaks down organic material and takes weeks or months, not hours or days. Be wary of any claims to the contrary.
The food-recycling Mill kitchen bin isn’t a composting device. The Food Grounds that come out of the bin are still food, minus the water, bulk, odor, and ick. The bin is designed to conserve all the potential in your kitchen scraps — not break them down — so we can keep them in the food system.
On top of that, we designed the Mill kitchen bin to be so much more practical and convenient than any other way of managing kitchen scraps.
You put in kitchen scraps and the Mill kitchen bin will automatically dry and grind them overnight (or whenever you schedule your cycle to run).
- The Dry & Grind cycle slowly heats and mixes your kitchen scraps in order to conserve your food’s nutrients.
- Each cycle varies depending on the amount and moisture content of kitchen scraps you put in. Wet kitchen scraps like fruit will take a little longer, and dry scraps like bread will be shorter. See the Dry & Grind Cycle Tips article to learn more about typical cycle times depending on mass adds, as well as other tips and tricks.
- The bin can take a while to grind up food because it runs a low power, energy-efficient cycle.
Please note: A little bit of caking in the bucket is normal and not cause for concern. It will come off over time.
What happens to the moisture removed from my food?
- As the bin dries your food, the water evaporates and air is pushed through a sophisticated odor management system, which includes a charcoal odor filter to help de-smellify.
- This air is then expelled through the bin’s exhaust fan system out the rear sides of the device.
- In a typical room, that moisture dissipates quickly and isn't noticeable.
You put in kitchen scraps and the Mill kitchen bin will automatically dry and grind them overnight (or whenever you schedule your cycle to run).
- The Dry & Grind cycle slowly heats and mixes your kitchen scraps in order to conserve your food’s nutrients.
- Each cycle varies depending on the amount and moisture content of kitchen scraps you put in. Wet kitchen scraps like fruit will take a little longer, and dry scraps like bread will be shorter. See the Dry & Grind Cycle Tips article to learn more about typical cycle times depending on mass adds, as well as other tips and tricks.
- The bin can take a while to grind up food because it runs a low power, energy-efficient cycle.
Please note: A little bit of caking in the bucket is normal and not cause for concern. It will come off over time.
What happens to the moisture removed from my food?
- As the bin dries your food, the water evaporates and air is pushed through a sophisticated odor management system, which includes a charcoal odor filter to help de-smellify.
- This air is then expelled through the bin’s exhaust fan system out the rear sides of the device.
- In a typical room, that moisture dissipates quickly and isn't noticeable.
When the Mill kitchen bin is running a Dry & Grind cycle, the fans sound like white noise and are about as loud as a dishwasher (~44 dB). If you put in pits or bones, you might hear a quick, loud snap or clunk. Every now and then it might make a funny creak or groan as it mixes.
The bin’s fans run at a super low-energy speed throughout the day to help maintain a negative air pressure so that the bin stays smelling fresh.
When the Mill kitchen bin is running a Dry & Grind cycle, the fans sound like white noise and are about as loud as a dishwasher (~44 dB). If you put in pits or bones, you might hear a quick, loud snap or clunk. Every now and then it might make a funny creak or groan as it mixes.
The bin’s fans run at a super low-energy speed throughout the day to help maintain a negative air pressure so that the bin stays smelling fresh.
As a general rule of thumb, if it comes off your cutting board or plate, you can Mill it!
Here are some examples:
– Small bones (like chicken or fish) – Fruits – Vegetables – Rinds, peels, pits – Meat, dairy, eggs – Coffee grounds
Things that don’t belong in the bin: – Large bones (like beef, lamb or pork) – Hard shells – Large amounts of liquid, grease, or oil – Large amounts of sugar, cake, or cookies – Large amounts of fibrous or starchy material (e.g. corn husks, potato peels) – Houseplants or flowers – Drugs or medicine – Compostable plastics, packaging – Take-out containers, paper plates – Moldy meat – Questionable leftovers (if they're more mold-than-food, it shouldn’t go in)
As a general rule of thumb, if it comes off your cutting board or plate, you can Mill it!
Here are some examples:
– Small bones (like chicken or fish) – Fruits – Vegetables – Rinds, peels, pits – Meat, dairy, eggs – Coffee grounds
Things that don’t belong in the bin: – Large bones (like beef, lamb or pork) – Hard shells – Large amounts of liquid, grease, or oil – Large amounts of sugar, cake, or cookies – Large amounts of fibrous or starchy material (e.g. corn husks, potato peels) – Houseplants or flowers – Drugs or medicine – Compostable plastics, packaging – Take-out containers, paper plates – Moldy meat – Questionable leftovers (if they're more mold-than-food, it shouldn’t go in)
Filters are free and typically last 7 - 8 months.
Charcoal filters are a critical component of the Mill kitchen bin’s odor management system. We selected a coconut-based charcoal among other varieties for its long-lasting ability to reduce odors and natural material profile.
The life span of the filter is typically seven - eight months and can vary based on how often you add kitchen scraps to your bin and how smelly they are.
We’ll send you an email when it’s time to replace your filter for free (it’s included in your service plan).
Your Mill kitchen bin shouldn’t smell. If you’re noticing any smells and haven’t received a notification to replace it, you can go to Device > Settings > Charcoal filter to troubleshoot.
Filters are free and typically last 7 - 8 months.
Charcoal filters are a critical component of the Mill kitchen bin’s odor management system. We selected a coconut-based charcoal among other varieties for its long-lasting ability to reduce odors and natural material profile.
The life span of the filter is typically seven - eight months and can vary based on how often you add kitchen scraps to your bin and how smelly they are.
We’ll send you an email when it’s time to replace your filter for free (it’s included in your service plan).
Your Mill kitchen bin shouldn’t smell. If you’re noticing any smells and haven’t received a notification to replace it, you can go to Device > Settings > Charcoal filter to troubleshoot.
We can turn them into food for chickens
Mill is a complete service designed to get uneaten food back to the farm as food for chickens. Your service includes Food Grounds home pickup (just request it in the app) with postage-paid boxes and liners. We receive shipped Food Grounds at our feed manufacturing facility where we turn them into a safe and nutritious chicken feed ingredient through inspection, screening, heating, and blending.
You can use them to supplement your backyard chickens’ diet
Remember that your Food Grounds are a mix of the food you couldn’t or didn’t eat and best used as a feed ingredient, not a full feed. You likely want to include other feed in your chickens’ diet too. It may also be best to not add any foods that you wouldn’t feed directly to your chickens if you didn’t have a Mill bin— this is not the case when you send Food Grounds to us because concentrations of these foods in our final commercial feed are negligible, rendering them harmless.
You can use them in your garden
If you decide to use Food Grounds in your garden, you should be aware of the volume of Food Grounds you are generating and the needs of your garden (e.g., garden size, weather, etc.). You can send us excess Food Grounds anytime. For backyard composting, you will need to add water to your dried-and-ground Food Grounds before adding them to your pile, which may cause mold, odor, or attract critters.
The average Mill customer will produce 150-200 lbs of Food Grounds per year. Don’t worry — we’ll take whatever you can’t feed to your flock or use in your garden and we'll make sure they stay in the food system.
We can turn them into food for chickens
Mill is a complete service designed to get uneaten food back to the farm as food for chickens. Your service includes Food Grounds home pickup (just request it in the app) with postage-paid boxes and liners. We receive shipped Food Grounds at our feed manufacturing facility where we turn them into a safe and nutritious chicken feed ingredient through inspection, screening, heating, and blending.
You can use them to supplement your backyard chickens’ diet
Remember that your Food Grounds are a mix of the food you couldn’t or didn’t eat and best used as a feed ingredient, not a full feed. You likely want to include other feed in your chickens’ diet too. It may also be best to not add any foods that you wouldn’t feed directly to your chickens if you didn’t have a Mill bin— this is not the case when you send Food Grounds to us because concentrations of these foods in our final commercial feed are negligible, rendering them harmless.
You can use them in your garden
If you decide to use Food Grounds in your garden, you should be aware of the volume of Food Grounds you are generating and the needs of your garden (e.g., garden size, weather, etc.). You can send us excess Food Grounds anytime. For backyard composting, you will need to add water to your dried-and-ground Food Grounds before adding them to your pile, which may cause mold, odor, or attract critters.
The average Mill customer will produce 150-200 lbs of Food Grounds per year. Don’t worry — we’ll take whatever you can’t feed to your flock or use in your garden and we'll make sure they stay in the food system.
Mill customers have the option to send their Food Grounds to us whenever their bin gets full, in order to keep their kitchen scraps in the food system and out of the landfill. Prepaid return boxes, shipping fees, and scheduled pickups are all included in the Mill service plan.
Based on our preliminary study, you can avoid about a half-ton of greenhouse gas emissions per year with a Mill service plan. Instead of filling the air with methane, your kitchen scraps are turned into food for chickens, going right back into the food system.
We are partnering with USPS to ship Food Grounds because they’re already visiting almost every house, every day. And since Mill households will, on average, send just one box of Food Grounds every few weeks, USPS vehicles will have the capacity to manage the load.
With this approach, every box of Food Grounds could be transported 15,000-20,000 miles (close to a trip around the world) before it could negate the benefits of keeping food out of landfills and avoiding methane emissions.
For the Food Grounds packaging, we use a recyclable LDPE plastic slide-lock liner in a 100% recyclable cardboard box. Since we receive every box of Food Grounds at our feed facility, we’re able to inspect and sort the boxes for reusability and recycle the bags. We’ve partnered with a recycling facility to convert all of our liners into value added products, for example parking curb stops!
We’re also actively exploring other sustainable packaging options. If you have any suggestions, please contact us.
To learn more about the climate impact of an annual Mill service plan, please click here.
Mill customers have the option to send their Food Grounds to us whenever their bin gets full, in order to keep their kitchen scraps in the food system and out of the landfill. Prepaid return boxes, shipping fees, and scheduled pickups are all included in the Mill service plan.
Based on our preliminary study, you can avoid about a half-ton of greenhouse gas emissions per year with a Mill service plan. Instead of filling the air with methane, your kitchen scraps are turned into food for chickens, going right back into the food system.
We are partnering with USPS to ship Food Grounds because they’re already visiting almost every house, every day. And since Mill households will, on average, send just one box of Food Grounds every few weeks, USPS vehicles will have the capacity to manage the load.
With this approach, every box of Food Grounds could be transported 15,000-20,000 miles (close to a trip around the world) before it could negate the benefits of keeping food out of landfills and avoiding methane emissions.
For the Food Grounds packaging, we use a recyclable LDPE plastic slide-lock liner in a 100% recyclable cardboard box. Since we receive every box of Food Grounds at our feed facility, we’re able to inspect and sort the boxes for reusability and recycle the bags. We’ve partnered with a recycling facility to convert all of our liners into value added products, for example parking curb stops!
We’re also actively exploring other sustainable packaging options. If you have any suggestions, please contact us.
To learn more about the climate impact of an annual Mill service plan, please click here.
The Mill kitchen bin is manufactured at a LEED-certified facility in Guadalajara, Mexico. We prioritized manufacturing in North America to minimize the greenhouse gas emissions impact of shipping bins from the factory to the homes of our Mill customers.
Our manufacturer also requires their supply chain to commit to their Responsible Business Alliance Code of Conduct to ensure the health and safety of the employees at the facility.
The Mill kitchen bin is manufactured at a LEED-certified facility in Guadalajara, Mexico. We prioritized manufacturing in North America to minimize the greenhouse gas emissions impact of shipping bins from the factory to the homes of our Mill customers.
Our manufacturer also requires their supply chain to commit to their Responsible Business Alliance Code of Conduct to ensure the health and safety of the employees at the facility.
We’ll be deliberate and thoughtful about our selection of potential farm partners, taking into account concerns about the environmental, welfare, and equity impacts of various production models.
We’ll share more about our progress later this year. If you have any suggestions, please contact us.
We’ll be deliberate and thoughtful about our selection of potential farm partners, taking into account concerns about the environmental, welfare, and equity impacts of various production models.
We’ll share more about our progress later this year. If you have any suggestions, please contact us.
For the kitchen bin packaging, we use 100% recyclable cardboard for the box and foam for the interior. We hate the foam deeply, but it was the best available option to ensure the bin arrives undamaged from our factory to your door. We vetted mushroom packaging, molded fiber, and a bunch of other sustainable options — none of them could protect a device of our size. We’re nevertheless committed to continuous improvement and are engaging with new providers who offer curbside recyclable foam alternatives.
For the Food Grounds packaging, we use a recyclable LDPE plastic slide-lock liner in a 100% recyclable cardboard box. This solution offers Mill customers the most practical way to keep their Food Grounds and packaging out of landfills. You can read more about the climate impact here. Since we receive every box of Food Grounds at our feed facility, we’re able to inspect and sort the boxes for reusability and recycle the bags. We’ve partnered with a recycling facility to convert all of our liners into parking curb stops!
We’re also actively exploring other sustainable packaging options. If you have any suggestions, please send them to us at mill.com/contact.
For the kitchen bin packaging, we use 100% recyclable cardboard for the box and foam for the interior. We hate the foam deeply, but it was the best available option to ensure the bin arrives undamaged from our factory to your door. We vetted mushroom packaging, molded fiber, and a bunch of other sustainable options — none of them could protect a device of our size. We’re nevertheless committed to continuous improvement and are engaging with new providers who offer curbside recyclable foam alternatives.
For the Food Grounds packaging, we use a recyclable LDPE plastic slide-lock liner in a 100% recyclable cardboard box. This solution offers Mill customers the most practical way to keep their Food Grounds and packaging out of landfills. You can read more about the climate impact here. Since we receive every box of Food Grounds at our feed facility, we’re able to inspect and sort the boxes for reusability and recycle the bags. We’ve partnered with a recycling facility to convert all of our liners into parking curb stops!
We’re also actively exploring other sustainable packaging options. If you have any suggestions, please send them to us at mill.com/contact.
We consider conservation in every decision we make — from sourcing product materials to community outreach.
We’re internally tracking what we’re doing, what we consider, and how we’ll get better across each area of our business.
– Device production: building and delivering Mill kitchen bins for households. – Household participation: improving household kitchen experiences. – Service plan: improving Mill customer experiences. – Maintaining food pathways: enabling highest and best end uses for Food Grounds. – Overall: building Mill as a sustainable company.
We’re building an approach that covers: – What we do to stop waste. – How we prevent emissions. – How we help people.
This approach is embedded into our company onboarding program, our product development process, and our company-wide goals. We’re looking forward to sharing more about our progress. If you have any suggestions, please contact us.
We consider conservation in every decision we make — from sourcing product materials to community outreach.
We’re internally tracking what we’re doing, what we consider, and how we’ll get better across each area of our business.
– Device production: building and delivering Mill kitchen bins for households. – Household participation: improving household kitchen experiences. – Service plan: improving Mill customer experiences. – Maintaining food pathways: enabling highest and best end uses for Food Grounds. – Overall: building Mill as a sustainable company.
We’re building an approach that covers: – What we do to stop waste. – How we prevent emissions. – How we help people.
This approach is embedded into our company onboarding program, our product development process, and our company-wide goals. We’re looking forward to sharing more about our progress. If you have any suggestions, please contact us.
We use a life-cycle assessment (LCA) to quantify the impact of an annual Mill service plan.
Prior to having data from households with Mill service plans, we prepared an externally reviewed Scoping LCA as an interim modeling effort. This is typically used to identify “hot spots” — areas of a process or business which are disproportionately impactful.
By publishing our initial estimates, we want to invite more people to help shape how we think and how we outsmart waste. To learn more about the climate impact of an annual Mill service plan, please click here.
We use a life-cycle assessment (LCA) to quantify the impact of an annual Mill service plan.
Prior to having data from households with Mill service plans, we prepared an externally reviewed Scoping LCA as an interim modeling effort. This is typically used to identify “hot spots” — areas of a process or business which are disproportionately impactful.
By publishing our initial estimates, we want to invite more people to help shape how we think and how we outsmart waste. To learn more about the climate impact of an annual Mill service plan, please click here.
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