Group Lead, Ved Krishna
Hello, hello! We all know the importance of end of use in compostable products – so we decided to go straight to the source! This week it’s Jennifer Trent, the president and Linda Norris Waldt, the Deputy Director, of the US Composting Council. We can’t overstate the importance of communication bet
0:00 – try to improve uh the environment and sustainability by recycling organic waste...
hello hello we all know the importance of the end of use when it comes to packaging and especially compostable packaging uh so finally you know we’ve been trying to get people from you may not know this uh Jennifer and Linda I also spoke to Frank franciosi a while back and I was trying to get people from the US composting Council so here we are we
10:00 – composting because mixed waste composting just doesn't produce a salable usable product...
the compost and making them into mud patties you know it was so fun for her she loved getting her hands muddy she didn’t like to get her hands dirty she liked to get covered in mud I mean the kid just loved it but that’s how I got my kids involved in compost was basically run your hands through it sprinkling it on the lawn you know taking buckets o
21:00 – Centric since it's so new here for um recy waste and recycling...
from carbon sequestration to water filtration to Drought resilience to many many I mean whole laundry list of reasons um to the economic reasons as well you know Economic Development these are businesses and good green solid jobs these are living wage jobs so it gets very frustrating when um we have bills that are good like the compost Act is one o
32:00 – national standard for packaging that's compostable and the National Standard compostable product...
still think it’s developing kind of customed to our market so you know it’s always interesting to watch these different policies and how they’re rolled out elsewhere and just kind of see how they fit into our own frame U yeah and just taking a few more cues uh you guys mentioned pasas for example uh and that’s been a big thing in the industry itsel
43:00 – Standards Board you know if we could do that for compostable packaging...
think this would solve so many problems for compost manufacturers if you know they could just pretty much give a quick visual to a load that comes in to see that the products they accept are indeed those products that sounds so easy I know it’s not going to be that easy but it’s a great idea to solve the problem Linda did you want to add anything t
54:00 – Packaging waste and assuming that the packaging W waste is kosher uh...
to give up their green if they don’t have a compostable product and their brands are green you know and we really it’s really important that people who do not companies products that do not meet the compostable standards that are passed by nationally we hope which would be fantastic or state state byst state those should be prosecuted by their atto
65:00 – are markets for compost and that there're decent markets for Quality compost...
is just one of the examples of the things that our cclc members are helping to fund for the uscc Linda you got anything else yeah yeah yeah the only thing that I would add to that is that this began in around 2020 right around covid is it was our last conference before covid where we kicked it off and what had happened is we were hearing from a lot
76:00 – Recycling and through reuse and recycling this garbage has um convenience um...
compost sites both small and large I mean there is a large community composting movement going on as well for small composters that is very very entrepreneurial and has lots of Interest yeah need more and more green thumbs yes and who doesn’t want to drive a wind row Turner like I do I’ve never been able to that’s amazing didn’t think of that that
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