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Composting is poorly suited for food waste due to its gloopy texture
“Composting is really good for, like, things like yard waste or agricultural waste, things that are really bulky. Composting is really not great for food waste. Food waste is kind of gloopy. You know, that's a technical term. And large-scale composters actually…”
Municipal green bin programs struggle because regular trash is easier for residents
“And even in a city that's doing everything right today, like, you know, Seattle, Tacoma area as an example, they have a green bin program, which people still don't use because in your kitchen, the easiest thing to do is throw it in the trash.”
Rogers: About half of all food waste originates in residential kitchens
“But actually, but if you look at kind of where the food we throw out comes from, about half of that comes from our houses, from our kitchen tables.”
Rogers: Only about 5% of households have green bin access
“I think only about five percent of households have access to a green bin program, so they're actually pretty rare.”
Feeding livestock is the second-best environmental use for food waste
“The best thing to do with food waste is actually to feed it to someone. And we can't always feed it to a person, but the next best thing would be to feed it to an animal. So you could avoid all of the emissions of having to grow more crops to feed those animal…”
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: Roughly one-third of all food grown globally is thrown out
“Well, at a top level, we throw out about a third of the food we grow.”
Food waste causes 10% of global emissions, ranking just behind the US
“It's one of the biggest climate problems in that food waste is like 10% of emissions. So like, if you ranked it by country, it'd be like China, United States, food waste, India.”
Rogers: One-third of Earth's arable land feeds livestock
“Something like one-third of the arable land on Earth is just to create food for livestock.”
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.”