Food waste is a big problem. More than a third of the food we buy each week is thrown into the trash and that’s the single largest source of waste in landfills. Rotting food releases voluminous levels of climate-warming methane into the air. One company is trying to change that.
Mill is a home appliance resembling a trash bin that turns food waste into animal feed.
“We’ve managed to take something awesome, food that we love, and turn it into poison for the world,” said founder Matt Rogers. “This doesn’t make sense to me. I started this company to make it really easy to take food out of the landfill.”
Standing a little more than two feet tall, the Mill churns and dehydrates food scraps - from meat and cheese to fruits and vegetables - and turns it into animal feed in a matter of hours. Once a bin is full, a button on the Mill app on your phone prompts the U.S. Post Office to pick up the grounds and ship it to farms for chickens to eat.
Rogers aims to drive massive behavior change by making food recycling easy.
