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.
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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