Slashing CO2Food waste magic.
Big Picture
One in four food calories ends up in a landfill. These literal mountains of food waste break down into methane – 84x more potent than CO₂ – driving 6% of all warming. That’s three times worse than aviation. Most food waste comes from homes and businesses where 30% of all grub is tossed. Historically there have only been two options to curb this waste: Ask people to buy less, and/or separate the food from everything else in the trash bin – a smelly, sticky, inconvenient undertaking.
How it Works
Mill’s food-transforming bins offer another way by pre-sorting and processing the food before it leaves your home. Their sleek device turns your sloppiest scraps and leftovers into dried, odorless food grounds. They’re lighter and more compact than trash, while retaining the nutrients. These grounds in turn can feed chickens or restore soils in your garden, instead of adding to landfills. For many homes, tossing food in a Mill is the most efficient way to reduce your CO₂ footprint.
Unfair Advantage
The team that built Nest thermostats and cut their teeth on the iPhone is applying their design wizardry to garbage. Mill’s team has decades of experience working on the world’s most iconic consumer products and now brings these superpowers to a market begging for reinvention. A user experience this frictionless makes diverting scraps from the landfill second nature, averting millions of tons of methane emissions and streamlining waste operations for households and cities alike.
24
Hour or less
compost conversion
MATT ROGERS CEO & CO-FOUNDER
Matt is the founder of Incite, a co-founder of Nest, and a former Apple lead behind 10 generations of iPod, 5 of iPhone, and the first iPad.
HARRY TANNENBAUM PRESIDENT & CO-FOUNDER
Harry was previously Google’s Director of Hardware and Nest’s Director of Business Analytics.
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