Group Lead, Ved Krishna
An entrepreneur with an endless thirst for finding a solution to the unknown, Scott Segal found his calling when he went back to his roots and decided to find a solution to the billions of pizza boxes ending up in landfills. The “barrier” which prevented these boxes from being biodegradable is pol
0:00 – biggest challenge we probably face today in really getting into renewable packaging...
hello hello I’m so happy to have Scott seagull founder of J&J green paper today with us uh Scott uh you you are fully aware of this but uh it’s the biggest challenge we probably face today in really getting into renewable packaging is probably barriers so this is this will be a very exciting conversation for me and the listeners to learn more about
13:00 – Wolves going away there was a big challenge you know so because...
a paycheck and you balance your you I I make x amount of dollars and I budget my month so I know what to spend and what not to spend but you will take your time and spend it as if you have an unlimited balance in your checkbook your time checkbook okay because you just do it and you don’t realize that you have a balance in that book you just don’t
27:00 – Lear learning how to make paper I wanted to make paper without...
Persona same in life you have somewhat of a Persona that’s okay the minute you start believing that you are the Persona now you’ve lost touch with the Earth okay in business you have to have a Persona because that’s the nature of of building or running a company or whatever you’re doing and even in a relationship you have to have some kind of perso
40:00 – for paper products in the world that is 100% backyard compostable biodegradable...
coating paper and pouring water on it and and seeing how it was and then you know I mean I like like magic one day I mixed a few of them together and poured water on the paper and it beat it up and so I knew I then I knew I was on to something so then I formed a bunch of you know homemade cups paper cups with my paper with no chemicals I hand coate
54:00 – went from product to just barrier okay so the barrier coding is...
the minute you open your mind to the root system you see the tree and the root system and now you’re more connected and if you can see the root system then you can see all the other things that feed the root system listen I’m sure you’ve seen a sidewalk that has a root system growing through it okay think about that for a second if you needed to mo
68:00 – on it but the paper paper they went down in the paper...
you take all the corn out of the food market so it’s a disruptive Food Market same thing with soy or canola oil which is the rape seed then you disrupt these edible markets okay we don’t take any of the rice we take the the waste from the rice so the more rice there is the more of the husk and brand we get and we’re not disrup rting any of the food
81:00 – Market the fact that they have a product that is backyard compostable...
every step we’ve taken we’ve had to learn and do it ourselves and we keep winning these these battles and getting things accomplished you know they told us that it it wouldn’t have the barrier qualities we got all the barrier qualities that it wouldn’t be completely recyclable we got those certification that it wasn’t biodegradable and backyard com
95:00 – our system going on a global scale plus all the raw material...
to Oracle and said this is where we’re going to be in three years that’s the system we want and they’re like wait a minute you know we spent an enormous amount of money uh uh jeline who works here has spent the last year working with Oracle building it we’re actually about to go live in about two weeks we have a system that’s the same system that I
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