This Vitamix composter turns food scraps into fertilizer on your countertop

TL;DR: As of July 13, the Vitamix FoodCycler is on sale at Best Buy for just $229.99. It normally retails for $349.99, so you'll be saving $120.

A combination of yard waste and food scraps makes up nearly 30 percent of what most people throw away, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. And while things like leftover salad, chicken bones, and coffee grounds probably don't seem all that harmful compared to, say, single-use plastics that take eons to break down, they're actually doing quite the number on the environment: When sent to a teeming landfill, decaying organic matter produces climate change-causing greenhouse gases like methane and carbon dioxide. (New research indicates we really, really don't need more of either of those things right now.) Read more...