organic garden
Compost made easy
The Organic Shopper staff and NatureMill share an important
...by
vision ~ to inspire and make it easy for people to compost!
NatureMill, Inc.’s vision is that
directly to landfills instead of back
5 kwh of power, the NatureMill
everybody in the world will com-
to the earth. A few months into
indoor composter allows families
post, reducing landfill waste and
his personal compost adventure,
to compost for less than $0.50
greenhouse gas emissions, re-
reality set in. It smells! It’s dirty! It’s
cents a month in electrical costs.
turning organic nutrients back to
backbreaking! Cohn wanted to en-
Quieter, faster, and more com-
our soil, and spreading a broader
gineer a better solution. Dozens of
pact, NatureMill composters set
environmental passion. Leading
patents and prototypes later, The
the industry standard for indoor
the way in the latest composting
NatureMill was born. The Nature-
composting.
technology, NatureMill, Inc. is the
Mill is the first ever fully-automatic
first company to bring compost-
indoor composter in the world.
The NatureMill is available in two
ing out of the backyard and into
styles, the Plus Edition and the
the kitchen.
The energy-efficient polypropyl-
Pro Edition. The Pro Edition offers
ene construction (recycled and
all the features of The Plus Edition.
Scientist and inventor Russ
recyclable materials) allows for
Cohn created the concept of Na-
maximum heat
tureMill. Cohn earned a B.A. and
insulation, con-
a dual M.S. from MIT in Mechan-
trolling internal
ical Engineering and Technol-
temperatures
ogy Policy. In his own backyard,
while also maxi-
he ventured to discover to his
mizing the energy
own amazement that almost
used to heat the
half of his own food waste was
food waste for
biodegradable. With his pas-
fast composting,
sion for these issues, Cohn was
reducing overall
certainly aware of how much
energy usage.
biodegradable waste was going
Using less than
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