The Mill food recycler
Odorless and fully automated, Mill dries and grinds your food scraps into nutrient-rich grounds.
The easiest way to compost in the DMV
The Mill food recycler + local Compost Crew pickups make it effortless, and odorless, to nourish local soil.
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How it works
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Add your scraps. Mill takes almost anything — even bones and avocado pits — and transforms them into nutrient-rich grounds.
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Compost Crew picks up your dry grounds curbside and processes them at a nearby composting site.
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Those grounds are then composted and turned into rich soil for local businesses, gardens, and farms in the DMV. Plus, once a year, you'll get a bag of finished compost to nourish your own garden.
Families in the DMV love Mill x Compost Crew
Together we can manage wasted food and put it back into the system — and help make healthier lives, soil, and communities in the DMV.
Food scraps are a resource we can actually recycle. Our landfills are filling up fast, but there’s something we can do about it. With Mill x Compost Crew, you can nourish our local farms and gardens with high quality compost made from your kitchen scraps.
Ben Parry
CEO, Compost Crew
Founded in 2011, Compost Crew’s mission is to divert food scraps from the landfill and help retain valuable nutrients by converting them into compost. Today, Compost Crew serves over twenty-thousand homes, businesses, communities and local governments throughout the Greater Washington area, and has composted over 75 million pounds of organic material.
Meet One Acre Farm
Your leftovers feed the One Acre farm, and it feeds our community.
“When we’re able to take food waste out of the trash, we can do something valuable with it.”
Support a local DMV loop
You’ll get a Mill food recycler to dry and grind your food scraps, a curbside compost bucket to collect them in, regular pickups from Compost Crew, and a bag of finished compost to nourish your garden or houseplants.
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Starting as low as $39 / mo + taxes
12 month commitment
Compost Crew pickups
Compost Crew will collect your Mill grounds right from your curb.
Finished compost delivered
Once a year, nourish your gardens with finished compost your scraps helped make.
Talk to us
Still not convinced or have a question? A real person from our DMV team will get you all the information you need.
Clean. Easy. Local.
With Mill x Compost Crew, you’ll never waste food at home again. Instead, your kitchen scraps will nourish DMV soil. All without mess, effort, or smells.
Melissa, Alessandro & Diego
Washington, DC
“It’s really important for us to protect the ability to provide fresh and local food to our kids.”
Melissa, Alessandro & Diego
Washington, DC
Mill customers in the DMV are on track to process over 750,000 pounds of food scraps with Mill this year.*
*Annualized run rate based on current average wet scraps added per day
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