<p>There’s no shortage of stats to demonstrate the sheer magnitude of our food waste problem: A whopping 40% of food grown for human consumption goes to waste; $400 billion worth of food gets thrown away every year in the U.S — roughly 1.5% of GDP; Food waste is responsible for 8-10% of global greenhouse gas emissions. Must we go on?</p><p>That’s why, after building the Nest Thermostat, Harry Tannenbaum and Matt Rogers turned their attention to our kitchens. They created Mill, a sleek appliance that quietly turns your food scraps into an odorless, coffee-ground-like material, and in the process, began changing the way people think about what they buy and throw away.</p><p>And Mill isn’t stopping at our kitchen counters. This week on <em>Everybody in the Pool,</em> Harry returns to the show to talk about how Mill is turning their attention to the places where food waste really piles up: grocery stores, restaurants, stadiums, and beyond.</p><p><br></p><h3>We talk about:</h3><ul><li>Why food waste is a $400 billion problem hiding in plain sight, and why nobody’s actually measuring it</li><li>How the data Mill collects is already changing consumer behavior, and what that means at commercial scale</li><li>What Mill Commercial looks like: a modular, dishwasher-sized unit that processes hundreds of pounds of food per day</li><li>The Whole Foods partnership: deploying Mill infrastructure across all locations by 2027, backed by Amazon's Climate Pledge fund</li><li>Why dehydrated food waste going directly to chickens is a tighter, more valuable loop than composting</li><li>The vision for residential distribution: bundled with waste services or utilities, the way Nest thermostats scaled through utilities</li></ul><p><br></p><h3>Links:</h3><ul><li>Mill: <a href="https://mill.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://mill.com/</a></li><li>All episodes: <a href="https://everybodyinthepool.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://everybodyinthepool.com/</a></li><li>Join our Discord! <a href="https://discord.gg/2EsDhwQC2z" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://discord.gg/2EsDhwQC2z</a></li><li>Subscribe to the Everybody in the Pool newsletter: <a href="https://www.mollywood.co/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.mollywood.co/</a></li><li>Become a member for the ad-free version of the show: <a href="https://everybodyinthepool.supercast.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://everybodyinthepool.supercast.com/</a></li></ul><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>