Group Lead, Ved Krishna
Shaun Miller is the Senior Director of Operations and Sustainability for Envita Solutions. Envita is a fourth generation family owned business that helps companies build a strategy around waste. In North America today Envita Solutions has approximately 4,000 customer facilities. Of those customer f
0:00 – waste solid waste and trash obviously recyclables Commodities scrap metal cardboard Plastics...
hello hello I’m so happy today to have Sean Miller the senior director of operations and sustainability at at beta Solutions join us uh so Sean just so that you know we do so many episodes and conversations around creation of materials and we’ve been actually really keen on finding people who are doing the end of the pipeline work so I’m so happy t
8:00 – Legacy it's been a lot of zero waste to landfill landfill um...
can see that in like nice and bright shiny dashboards which they can drill into for deeper and deeper analytics but also it outputs the the micro information in Excel you know so that it helps their sites with their internal and external kpi reporting but it also gives uh our stakeholders at the corporate level the ability to make meaningful decisi
16:00 – Hot Topic in the waste industry uh emerging regulations on that material...
of opportunities where you’re bringing uh you know metal into a facility and making something out of it that that’s we we’ developed a lot of expertise in some of the waist streams that come out of there like ba filter cakes and sludges and swvs and um Litany of different things so we’re we’re never closed-minded we’re always very open to expanding
24:00 – Venture group Heritage Ventures they are always looking for um companies startups...
from all walks of life where it touches our touches our touches our world um so that I mean that’s a good one because the way that we tackle that one is we take advantage of what are the known resources today we know what we can do with it and how to dispose of it um unfortunately sometimes you can only landfill something but that’s those are very
32:00 – would say the biggest challenges when you have packaging packaging waste is...
landfill real estate is pretty cheap in the United States that it’s going to be a lot cost a lot more to ship that six hours away um and pay for uh you know incineration for energy recovery versus sending 10 miles down the road and burying it in the ground so we inevitably have all those times we bring proposals to our customer and say this is like
40:00 – Elsewhere for recycling or post uh Waste Management kind of approaches I...
that find a system hopefully we set it up as this closed loop and so that it’s you know circular um but if they’ve got it’s a smaller facility because her excuse me do that every day in V still we work with major manufacturing uh facilities but we also work with their distribution centers we work with their Labs their offices their um service cente
48:00 – focused towards packaging and packaging also in mostly in the compostable packaging...
would say by far and large our Solutions are remain pretty domestic um throughout the United States Canada and Mexico that’s wonderful as well because you know the nearer the nearer the final disposal is the better it is otherwise of course incurring a carbon footprint in transportation as well what about composting is that gaining momentum for you
56:00 – a good product you might make a product that's really easily compostable...
collaborators throughout your entire ecosystem are like-minded and champing the same intentional strategy together so probably not exactly what you’re looking for there but I think that’s important and anytime you can um give what you would consider advice to your peers and colleagues throughout the sustainab sustainability ecosystem like you got t
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