After leaving Apple, Matt Rogers founded Nest with Tony Fadell and stayed at Google for several years following the acquisition. Mill is a new company from Rogers that offers a “kitchen bin” with a monthly subscription that can “de-stink your kitchen, stop wasting food, and make a positive impact.”

The goal behind Mill is to “keep food out of landfills” and “send it back to farms.” It does this through a “kitchen bin” where you throw away food scraps:

It cannot take larger bones, shells, large amounts of liquid or grease, houseplants/flowers, drugs/medicine, compostable plastics or packaging, paper plates or bowls, or take-out containers.

What you put in is dried and compacted nightly into “Food Grounds,” which has the benefit of de-stinking the contents with a charcoal odor filter in the bin. Once full, you “empty the bucket into a prepaid return box” with the Food Grounds being turned into “food for chickens — so all the nutrients from your kitchen scraps can stay in the food system, instead of being lost forever in a landfill.” This is not composting, with the grounds still considered food “minus the water, bulk, odor, and ick.”

Featuring Wi-Fi connectivity, the bin measures 27 x 16 x 15 inches with a weight of 50 pounds and an 11 liter internal bucket that’s removable for easy transferring. It has a powder-coated steel enclosure with metal pedal and “hidden full-color LED interface” on the lid and locking mechanism.

Mill costs $396 a year, which is billed annually and comes to $33 per month. It’s also available as a $45/month monthly plan with the bin costing $75 to deliver. As part of this you get the Mill kitchen bin, companion app, Food Grounds shipping, replacement charcoal filters, support, and a warranty.

Mill is taking $33 refundable deposit/reservations today with the first shipments in spring 2023

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