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:

• The food-recycling Mill kitchen bin
• Food Grounds pickups whenever you want
• Filters, repairs, and even bin replacement
• Detailed, personalized impact reports
• A dedicated support team of real people

The Mill kitchen bin turns 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 kitchen scraps, 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 because it is the most practical way to keep your kitchen scraps in the food system, as we work to turn them into food for chickens.

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.