SAVE $125: Up until Sept. 1, the Mill food recycling bin is priced at $874, reduced from its standard price of $999, as part of Mill’s Labor Day promotion.

As a shopping journalist, it’s a notable occasion when your favorite item you’ve ever reviewed goes on sale. It’s the additional motivation required to persuade someone to buy it and see if it can enhance their life as well.

The most revolutionary product in my collection is the Mill kitchen bin, which is currently $125 less during Mill’s Labor Day event (I can count on one hand how many times I’ve seen Mill discounted prior to this). With the reduction, you can take the Mill food recycler home for $874 rather than its regular price of $999.

The Mill kitchen bin stands apart from other home composters. Rather than producing real decomposed organic material (through a process involving worms), Mill simply dehydrates your food scraps and mills them into an odorless substance that looks like soil. When I say odorless, I truly mean it — Mill genuinely doesn’t emit any smell and serves as a wonderful alternative to allowing spoiled food to fill your trash can with odor. Mill accommodates all of your daily plate leftovers and old refrigerator items, transforming them into food grounds quietly overnight. Unlike conventional composting methods, you can include meat, most dairy products, and even small quantities of desserts in Mill.

Nonetheless, the most distinctive aspect of Mill is its ability to handle your food grounds for you. If you lack a garden, you may find little use for the “compost” generated by countertop composters such as Lomi and Reencle. Mill addresses that significant concern through a mail-back service: With a subscription, you’ll receive complimentary pre-labeled boxes to pack your used food grounds for return to Mill. Afterwards, Mill repurposes the grounds as a base for — wait for it — chicken feed. I have been utilizing my Mill bin for roughly two years and was recently informed that my Mill usage has diverted 500 pounds of food waste from landfills, instead nourishing farm chickens that needed to be fed, anyway.

Up to this point, the only possible point of hesitation I’ve been able to identify regarding Mill is the price tag. It becomes particularly expensive when you consider the mail-back pickup plan, which adds an additional $194 each year. But consider it this way: Mill’s Labor Day offer nearly offsets an entire year of the pickup subscription.