Winter Kitchen Composting - February 2023
This past week, there was a bunch of online/tech chatter about a new (just emerged from stealth mode) hardware + services startup called Mill. It is from the founder of Nest, who's thermostat changed that entire product category, so the history of success instantly gives this new thing - a composting bin + a service to take your food waste - some credibility. Mill is a super-fancy kitchen composter that basically cooks your food waste to ensure the bin doesn't start stinking. #13 on this past year's list was to do more with composting - including under the sink kitchen food waste . I have the bin, I just stopped filling it in not for any particular reason. The Mill news was enough to nudge me back into the kitchen scrape food waste game. It didn't take long to fill the little bin with vegetable scraps, egg shells, coffee grinds and house plant foliage. I used a compostable bag to line the bin, but it was *so* compostable that it had already started to break do