Canary says buyers reject biomass carbon credits if wood has alternative uses
“Even if I wanted to, like, we wouldn't have the customer adoption to pay for those credits if it could have gone to a mill or it could have gone to an energy facility or something along those lines.”
Schroepfer: Climate tech startup Mill sold out 10,000 units at $1,000 each
“Like mill is sold out the first run of 10,000 units. They sold them for a thousand bucks each.”
Mill kitchen bin grinds and dries bones, dairy, and avocado pits
“So you could put all food in the bin, everything, including meat and dairy, chicken bones and fish bones, avocado pits, you know, things that are really hard to break down because we're going to grind it up and dry it out.”
Rogers: Aggregated American food scraps create nutritious chicken feed
“So we're kind of building kind of an average American diet blend to feed chickens, which actually ends up being quite nutritious.”
Rogers: Mill is running about a dozen municipal pilot programs
“Actually, we've got about a dozen pilots kind of in work right now, where we're going to be deploying our memberships in partnership with cities to their residents to help them achieve their zero waste goals, or their food diversion goals, or their climate goa…”
Mill's initial marketing will focus on kitchen cleanliness rather than climate impact
“So I think for us going to market, especially these kind of first years, we're really going to be talking a lot about, you know, a better kitchen experience, less gross, stinky trash, no fruit flies, no rats, that kind of thing.”
Rogers: Mill membership will cost about one dollar per day
“So the mill membership is going to cost about a dollar a day which, you know, it's like another kind of Netflix or YouTube subscription.”
Empty returning USPS trucks provide cheap capacity for reverse logistics
“The mail carrier comes to your house every day anyway. They come back to your house every day, they drop off the mail, they drop off packages, and they go back mostly empty. You know, those trucks drive back to the depot every day, and those trucks are usually…”
Mill appliance produces roughly one shoebox of odorless grounds monthly per home
“And we're not talking about a garbage truck load of food waste. We're talking like about a shoe box per household per month. So it's really not a lot of stuff and it doesn't smell, it doesn't go bad. So it doesn't need to get there urgently.”