Turn your food scraps into fresh produce

The Mill food recycler + local R.City pickups make it effortless, and odorless, to support local farms.

How it works

1. Mill Food Recycler
   You’ll get a Mill food recycler, which turns your food scraps into dry grounds. No smells, no mess.

2. R.City pickups
   Every month, R.City will pick up your grounds and take them to a local farm to be composted.

3. Fresh, local produce
   R.City farm will use the compost to grow fresh produce for you and the community.

4. Your rewards
   You can request a free box of fresh produce ($10 value) every quarter - or you can sign up for monthly farm boxes.

Families in the Valley love Mill + R.City

“Love this device!”
Last week, when I wheeled our waste barrel out to the street, that it was a lot less empty than usual. Just one bag of "trash" going to the landfill. It's because our food waste is going into the Mill to create new soil. We are reducing the amount of stuff going to the landfill, the generation of methane at the landfill ... and using less trash bags all at the same time.
— Ryan, Scottsdale, customer since May 2024
Verified buyer

“Makes composting a joy!”
This thing is amazing. It removes all of the pain points from home kitchen composting. 1) ABSOLUTELY NO SMELL! 2) Easy to open and put scraps in without wrenching off the top of the 5 gal bucket or using a smaller bin that would always have an odor. 3) Because everything is ground up and dehydrated, the volume of material is reduced making handling the material easier and you can go longer between pickups. I love this thing!
— Christa, Chandler, customer since Feb 2024
Verified buyer

“Less waste”
We have had the Mill for over a month now and the reduction of food waste is incredible! We would have filled 3 buckets without the mill. It is super easy to dump out when full. It looks like soil when it has completed the cycle.
— Aimee, Phoenix, customer since May 2024
Verified buyer

“Better than I expected”
I really didn’t know what to expect but I didn’t think that it be so quiet, attractive and easy to use. I’m only one person but I am shocked (and somewhat embarrassed) by the amount of food waste I produce. I’m on a fairly tight budget and really shouldn’t be using it but if I wanna make a difference it takes a little pain. The fact that it goes to a farm near me makes the pain better!
— Erika, Scottsdale, customer since April 2024
Verified buyer

“Doing our part has never been so easy”
We have 3 kids and that equals a LOT of food waste in our house. We tried backyard composting first but living in the desert w mostly desertscape meant we didn’t have the browns to make decent compost. Enter R. city and then Mill. We have loved our experience contributing to the local food system with R. city and Mill has made it that much easier. Now we fill up 2 buckets over a month instead of 2 buckets a week and the design means no stink. I can’t recommend Mill enough.
— Lauren, Phoenix, customer since April 2024
Verified buyer

Support a local business. Support local food systems.

Given the rapid urban development in Maricopa County, supporting our local farmers is now more important than ever. Our partnership provides a meaningful opportunity to help these farms thrive and ensure that the Valley continues to have access to fresh, local produce.
— JD, R.City founder

A decade ago, R.City founder JD Hill started collecting food scraps from Phoenix Valley homes and restaurants on his bike. Today, R.City includes a farm and a service area of over 1,200 square miles. Thanks to his partnership with Mill, JD’s mission to turn food scraps into food is more impactful than ever.

Perfect for life in Phoenix

You’ll be supporting the local food system. Keeping your home free of fruit flies and smells. And spending less time hauling trash out in the heat.

Filters all odors

Runs automatically

No drippy bags

Pickups from your doorstep

Meet the R.City farm

Your uneaten leftovers feed the R.City farm, and it feeds our community.

It was the idea from day one to have our own farm, to use the compost to grow the vegetables, and sell the vegetables. With all the revenue we get from food-waste collection, we're able to pay all the typical overhead costs of a small farm. We pay for everything besides labor, and then farmers are able to come on to the property, utilize all the resources for free, and then we buy 100 percent of what the farm grows.

The impact

We are de-risking small farming. If tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, millions of households in the Phoenix area do this, we're going to have the most successful local food system in the world.

Support a local Phoenix food loop

You’ll get a Mill food recycler that dries and grinds your food scraps, and monthly pickups from R. City — plus, the option for a Farm Box full of local produce.

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$39 / mo + tax
The Mill food recycler comes with long-lasting filters whenever you need them and warranty coverage if there’s any issue.
R.City pickups include a bucket for everything that can't go in the Mill and, once a month, it will be picked up at your doorstep.
Seasonal sampler offers fresh, local produce or compost from the farm — once a quarter ($10 value, upon request).

The wonderful feeling of wasting nothing

Ask anyone who’s tried it: Teaming up with R.City and Mill makes you feel good. Because your food scraps are part of a local loop, helping to grow fresh veggies from composted grounds.

Jon & Hannah

Phoenix

“It’s really important for us to protect the ability to provide fresh and local food to our kids.”

Mill + the City of Phoenix

More than 25 Mill food recyclers are operational at City Hall and the Calvin C. Goode buildings. R.City collects the processed food grounds to grow fresh produce for the community.