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The sleek and pricey new Mill bin is taking aim at home food waste. How much would you pay to go green? Mill is an electric kitchen waste bin that shrinks and de-stinks typical kitchen food scraps in ...

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In the course of a week, my kitchen produces a shocking quantity of what we might think of as edible trash: apple peels, garlic nubs, a bit of gristle from a steak, Dorito dust, tea bags, the ...