{"id":211396,"date":"2025-12-16T17:22:25","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T17:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/16\/whole-foods-to-install-smart-food-waste-bins-from-mill-starting-in-2027-techcrunch\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T17:22:25","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T17:22:25","slug":"whole-foods-to-install-smart-food-waste-bins-from-mill-starting-in-2027-techcrunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/16\/whole-foods-to-install-smart-food-waste-bins-from-mill-starting-in-2027-techcrunch\/","title":{"rendered":"Whole Foods to install smart food waste bins from Mill starting in 2027 | TechCrunch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Food waste startup <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mill.com\" target=\"_blank\">Mill<\/a> said Tuesday that it has inked a deal with Amazon to deploy <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2024\/05\/31\/mills-redesigned-food-waste-bin-really-is-faster-and-quieter-than-before\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">its bins<\/a> in Whole Foods produce departments across the country starting in 2027. Amazon\u2019s Climate Pledge Fund is also investing in the startup, though it did not disclose the amount. The company has raised a total of $250 million to date, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2025\/12\/16\/amazon-whole-foods-ai-food-recycle-eggs\" target=\"_blank\">according<\/a> to an Axios report.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Food waste is a big problem. About 10% of all food \u2014 43 billion pounds, according to one <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ers.usda.gov\/publications\/pub-details?pubid=43836\" target=\"_blank\">2014 study<\/a> \u2014\u00a0is tossed every year at U.S. grocery stores. For an industry that operates on <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.marketplace.org\/story\/2022\/05\/13\/how-do-grocery-stores-make-money-when-their-profit-margins-are-so-low\" target=\"_blank\">thin margins<\/a>, every pound thrown out is a missed opportunity and adds to a store\u2019s carbon footprint.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mill is hoping that its sensor-laden bins can gather enough data to help Whole Foods reduce the amount of produce it throws out. After the bins have dehydrated and ground the food waste, the waste will be turned into chicken feed that\u2019ll be shipped to Whole Foods\u2019 private label egg suppliers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/12\/16\/whole-foods-to-install-smart-food-waste-bins-from-mill-starting-in-2027\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Food waste startup Mill said Tuesday that it has inked a deal with Amazon to deploy its bins in Whole Foods produce departments across the country starting in 2027. Amazon\u2019s Climate Pledge Fund is also investing in the startup, though it did not disclose the amount. The company has raised a total of $250 million [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":211397,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-211396","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tech"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}