Editors note: This is a guest post by Dan Harrison

Eco-friendly gadgets are a huge growth area at the moment. Granted, there are many products being designed that are just a marketing ploy. However, there are some genuinely interesting and useful eco gadgets too.

The NatureMill Indoor composter is an ideal gadget for any green warrior without a garden. The indoor composter allows you to recycle your waste food easily and quickly without a garden and without a specialised food waste collection service. The composter is capable of breaking down around 120 lbs (55kg) of food waste every month. That’s a quite a bit being saved from landfill.

The composter adds moisture, then heats and mixes the waste. This physical processing encourages rapid breakdown of the food matter. Once the food waste has broken down, you can then retrieve the compost from the bottom container of the composter.

If you live in an flat (or apartment as you call them in the US), then the NatureMill Indoor composter is a perfect way to reduce your landfill waste without a garden. The composter is small enough to fit in a kitchen cupboard, or could be stored in your garage if you have one. You can use the newly created soil to top-up your indoor plants with some natural fertilizer. You could also give the compost away to friends and family if you don’t have any pot plants.

The heat kills nasty bacteria and destroys the majority of smells. If you do smell anything from the composter, the worst you’d smell would be damp straw or mushrooms. The carbon filter inside the composter helps with the odours and only needs replacing every 5 years. Although the composter is always switched on, it only uses 5kWh a month, which costs very little in real money. Just pence really.

And here’s the best bit about the composter. Due to the way the waste is mixed and aerated, the decomposing material releases no methane into the atmosphere. This means you can do your bit to help reduce greenhouse gasses too!

This guest article about the NatureMill indoor composter was written by Dan Harrison. Dan has a passion for all kinds of eco-friendly gadgets. Dan is very keen on green innovation that actually benefits the environment, rather than products that exist purely for the sake of being labelled “eco-friendly”.