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Mill, makers of innovative food recyclers for the residential, institutional and workplace markets, launched a partnership in July 2024 with Arizona State University’s Walton Sustainability Teachers Academy (STA) and World Wildlife Fund (WWF) to create the Food Waste Futures Fellowship Program and to develop the Mill Food Recycler Educators Guide for use as a teaching tool in PreK-12 classrooms. The yearlong fellowship program, which concluded in June 2025, included a cohort of ten fellows, who are PreK–12 educators from five Title I schools across the Phoenix metropolitan area. Fellows were given Mill food recyclers, stipends, and provided support from educational curriculum development and instructional professionals.

The fellowship also included training sessions, site visits to schools for food waste audits, lesson plans, proposals, and experiential learning activities with partnering organizations that incorporate food systems sustainability and food waste reduction.  The use of Mill in classrooms provided students with hands-on learning. Through this collaborative learning, the fellows and their students created the Mill Food Recycler Educators Guide, which complements WWF’s Food Waste Warriors toolkit.