A new green tech startup wants us to rethink what we do with our banana peels, pepper tops and other kitchen scraps, Axios‘ Alex Fitzpatrick reports.
Why it matters: Scraps that are thrown away in the regular trash often wind up in landfills, where they generate methane, a greenhouse gas.
- Landfills account for nearly 15% of human-related methane emissions, per the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
How it works: The company, called Mill and launched Tuesday, is part hardware startup, part subscription service.
- Customers are sent a bin for their kitchen scraps. The bin — which must be plugged in — dehydrates and mashes food scraps into a substance, not unlike ground coffee.
- When the bin is full, subscribers can empty the contents into a prepaid mailing box to be sent back to Mill.
What’s next: Mill is working with regulators on plans to turn the resulting material into a chicken feed ingredient — keeping it in the food cycle and out of landfills.
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