The Mill food recycler
Purchase value of $999, comes with long-lasting filters whenever you need them and warranty coverage if there’s any issue.
Turn your food scraps into fresh produce
The Mill food recycler + local R.City pickups make it effortless, and odorless, to support local farms.
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How it works
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Mill Food Recycler
You’ll get a Mill food recycler, which turns your food scraps into dry grounds. No smells, no mess.
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R.City pickups
Every month, R.City will pick up your grounds and take them to a local farm to be composted.
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Fresh, local produce
R.City farm will use the compost to grow fresh produce for you and the community.
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Your rewards
You can request a free box of fresh produce ($10 value) every quarter - or you can sign up for monthly farm boxes.
Families in the Valley love Mill + R.City
Support a local business. Support local food systems. Take pride in making Phoenix a more sustainable city.
Given the rapid urban development in Maricopa County, supporting our local farmers is now more important than ever. Our partnership provides a meaningful opportunity to help these farms thrive and ensure that the Valley continues to have access to fresh, local produce.
JD
R.City founder
A decade ago, R.City founder JD Hill started collecting food scraps from Phoenix Valley homes and restaurants on his bike. Today, R.City includes a farm and a service area of over 1,200 square miles. Thanks to his partnership with Mill, JD’s mission to turn food scraps into food is more impactful than ever.
Perfect for life in Phoenix
You’ll be supporting the local food system. Keeping your home free of fruit flies and smells. And spending less time hauling trash out in the heat.
Filters all odors
Runs automatically
No drippy bags
Pickups from your doorstep
Support a local Phoenix food loop
You’ll get a Mill food recycler that dries and grinds your food scraps, and monthly pickups from R. City — plus, the option for a Farm Box full of local produce.
Mill + R.City
$39 / mo + tax
R.City pickups
You get a bucket for everything that can't go in the Mill and, once a month, it’ll be picked up at your doorstep.
Seasonal sampler
Fresh, local produce or compost from the farm — once a quarter ($10 value, upon request).
The wonderful feeling
of wasting nothing
Ask anyone who’s tried it: Teaming up with R.City and Mill makes you feel good. Because your food scraps are part of a local loop, helping to grow fresh veggies from composted grounds.
Jon & Hannah
Phoenix
“It’s really important for us to protect the ability to provide fresh and local food to our kids.”
Jon & Hannah
Phoenix
Mill + the City of Phoenix
More than 25 Mill food recyclers are operational at City Hall and the Calvin C. Goode buildings. R.City collects the processed food grounds to grow fresh produce for the community.
Frequently Asked Questions
Organic material that can’t go into Mill (like large bones or food-soiled paper) can go directly in your R.City bucket for pickup.
The Mill is about the size of a standing trash can. The exact dimensions are:
Height: 27 in (45 inches needed as clearance for the lid to open)
Width: 16 in
Depth: 15 in
Currently, we do not have a way to bundle together the bin and R.City pickups. If you want to buy the bin, you can purchase one directly from Mill at mill.com, and then pay for R.City pickups at recycledcity.com.
Yes! You can reach out directly to R.City at info@recycledcity.com to request a compost delivery.
We designed Mill to dry and grind food scraps as efficiently as possible using integrated sensors and machine learning algorithms to minimize the energy required to transform your food scraps into dry grounds. Mill runs intelligently, and cycles run shorter or longer depending on the amount and type of food scraps added. The Mill skips running on days when few scraps are added to save energy. We estimate your Mill will use around 0.7 kilowatt-hour (kWh) of electricity per day, averaged over multiple weeks of usage. Our energy usage numbers reflect these real world conditions, and are an average across all of our second generation devices.
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 $0.178 per kWh (approximately the national average), that’s about $4 per month. This is less than half of what it costs to run a standard-sized dishwasher each month and the bin will keep getting better and more efficient over time.
Want to use less energy? Try limiting liquids by doing things like straining wet foods before adding the solids to the bucket.
Once you sign up, you’ll receive an email after your purchase invoice that details the delivery window where you can expect to receive your Mill kitchen bin and R.City bucket. The Mill kitchen bin will be delivered via FedEx, and R.City will drop off your bucket on the date confirmed in email.
You’re welcome to keep your dry grounds and use them for your chickens, or turn them into compost. Any Food Grounds or organic material that you don’t use, R.City will pick up.
Mill is designed to make it effortless, and odorless, to waste less food.
Large capacity: Add food scraps to your bin all day, every day. Keep filling it for weeks.
Automatic cycles: The bin runs at a set time every day—zero effort required.
Odor filtration: The state-of-the-art odor filter is packed with 5 lbs of charcoal and lasts up to 12+ months for most households — get refills when you need them (included in Mill + R.City service).
The Mill App: See what’s happening inside your Mill, schedule your cycles, and get alerts when there’s something you need to pay attention to. Otherwise, your bin will do its thing.
You will get a White Mill Food Recycler. The Mill Food Recycler you receive may be a refurbished model with cosmetic imperfections.
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