Mill, the company behind the award-winning food recycling system, has officially announced the launch of Mill for Workplace, which happens to be a business solution designed geared towards helping companies manage food waste at scale.
According to certain reports, this particular solution will get the company’s food recycler to work alongside new services, i.e. enterprise fleet management software and AI-driven analytics, to simplify real estate operations and make food waste management a measurable, cost-effective decarbonization strategy for both large and small businesses.
Talk about the same on a slightly deeper level, we begin from the presence of Mill Food Recycler, an award-winning device capable of quietly and odorlessly processing food scraps overnight, shrinking the volume of wasted food by up to 80%. Such a setup also reduces the need for daily janitorial or hauling services.
Complementing that would be an easy-to-use mechanism and educational tools that, on their part, ensure quick adoption by employees.
Next up, we must dig into the available access of an enterprise fleet management platform, which brings forth real-time analytics dashboard to help users monitor and manage food recycler operations across their entire footprint.
This mechanism should basically empower leaders to track utilization and impact metrics, including the amount of food waste diverted and corresponding CO₂e emissions avoided.
“Managing food waste doesn’t need to be hard,” said Matt Rogers, Cofounder and CEO of Mill. “Today around 30% of office trash is wasted food. By making it easy for companies and their employees to keep food out of the trash, Mill helps businesses simplify operations, reduce costs, and comply with local requirements to keep food out of the garbage. Mill is bringing the same efficiency and sustainability that’s transformed homes into the workplace.
Another detail worth a mention is rooted in the potential for generating AI-enhanced efficiency. Here, you have smart modeling techniques optimizing run times and energy usage over time to ensure continuous operational improvements.
Joining that would be a feature focused on providing dedicated account management. The stated feature packs together support and customization services that can facilitate seamless integration of Mill into day-to-day operations, supporting corporate leaders from set-up and employee onboarding to ongoing management and engagement.
The all-new Mill for Workplace can also contribute towards achieving LEED certification for green buildings, and TRUE certification for zero waste in workplaces. In case you weren’t aware, these certifications are among the prime indicators that a building has met certain standards for responsible materials management and waste diversion. Hence, any organizations attaining these kinds of certifications can achieve cost savings, increased property value, and a positive environmental impact.
To understand the significance of such a development, we must take into account how wasted food at work has traditionally been a costly and complex challenge which impacts, at large, an organization’s efficiency, budgets, and decarbonization initiatives
As for how exactly this challenge impacts work, the answer begins from operational burden. You see, if we go by the available data, more than a third of typical office waste stream is food, which is wet, heavy, rots quickly and attracts pest, making its management particularly hard.
The next problem is of high costs. Contextualizing this is a fact that companies across the board are already spending an excessive portion of their facilities management budgets on food waste. However, the need for daily management of all office waste has only grown more urgent to force increased janitorial, as well as mandate hauling and pest control, costing large offices tens of thousands of dollars annually.
Considering food waste is difficult to tackle in an office environment and hard to measure, a sheer lack of data presents another potential bottleneck for organizations.
“Mill has been an excellent solution for us at Duolingo,” said Curtis Nystrom, Senior Workplace Experience Manager at Duolingo. “The product helps us minimize the physical space taken up by a composting program. What really sets it apart is the real time waste reporting. We have shared monthly reports out with the office and our Duos get excited to participate in the program by increasing the percentage we divert month over month. Composting gamified!”
