Mill, the garbage bin for food scraps, gets a redesign

Mill, a food waste-specific garbage bin, is a device designed to collect, dry, and grind uneaten food, rerouting it from a highly polluting burial in a landfill to a facility that converts it into chicken feed. Since Mill was first released in early 2023, the device has made its way into 10,000 homes and offices, and diverted more than one million pounds of table scraps, potato skins, and chicken bones from landfills. Today Mill’s maker, Mill Industries, is releasing the next generation of the device, which aims to process domestic food scraps faster, more efficiently, and at a much bigger scale. The new and improved version of the device has a few key upgrades to its hardware and software, and one big change to the way it’s marketed, according to Mill Industries cofounder Matt Rogers. Known for his previous blockbuster device, the Nest smart thermostat, Rogers says the new version of Mill was directly informed by feedback collected from users, and from data collected by the bins thems

Mill, a food waste-specific garbage bin, is a device designed to collect, dry, and grind uneaten food, rerouting it from a highly polluting burial in a landfill to a facility that converts it into chicken feed. Since Mill was first released in early 2023, the device has made its way into 10,000 homes and offices, and diverted more than one million pounds of table scraps, potato skins, and chicken bones from landfills. Today Mill’s maker, Mill Industries, is releasing the next generation of the device, which aims to process domestic food scraps faster, more efficiently, and at a much bigger sca