To correctly operate the machine, owners simply insert a plant-based Zera Additive Pack inside the device before proceeding to fill it with food . Designed to fit seamlessly into your kitchen and make the most of your food — turning today’s food scraps into tomorrow’s ready-to-use, homemade fertilizer.

The Zera food recycler turns your food waste into fertilizer over night. Whirlpool’s Zera Food Recycler turns food scraps into fertilizer. Whirlpool’s new Zera Food Recycler, however, could be the solution to that.

It’s the same machine as before, now with upgraded internals and a technical . For now, Zera is just a prototype, but WLabs and Whirlpool. The Zera Food Recycler, from Whirlpool Corporation’s innovation incubator, WLabs, is a residential composting appliance for kitchen scraps.