Group Lead, Ved Krishna
It’s not often you get to speak with an influential customer and a key supplier – at the same time! We had that opportunity this week when Ciara Lamia, the Director of Supply Chain at Burgerville, and Beau Whitney, the CEO of Everyday Hemp, joined Ved on #GoodGarbage! Enjoy this conversation about
0:00 – I've been working on the policy side under my other brand under...
hello hello I’m so happy today to have Sierra lamama and Bo Whitney join us uh Sierra is the director of supply chain at Burgerville and Bo Whitney is a supplier to Bo bergerville with being the CEO of everyday hemp which is a bio-based Cutlery and straw supplier so this is going to be a very interesting interaction and I’m so excited about this be
10:00 – shift over their their consumer purchasing patterns over to sustainable products and...
this no matter what so maybe Bo you start with you know how did you position that cost s side of it and then we’ll go to Sierra well I not only look at the cost of the product individually but I look at the overall costs the macro costs and every day there’s over 500 million um petroleum based straws used and thrown away in landfills every day 500
21:00 – be packaging can't have food and other materials that are not compostable...
Cutlery so what’s the what has been the limiting factor is is um I I want a product that people feel just the same as they do with the straws that it’s a comparable substitute to petroleum products and so a lot of this comes down to the design and it’s not the ingredients that go into the manufacturing it’s the design itself and so I’ve been trying
32:00 – shifted the entire industry over to a home compostable biodegradable product packaging...
straw is it petroleum is it industrial or is it home and and so it’s really it’s there’s not a whole lot of intuitive you know sens it’s just on the Optics but then you have to educate the the consumers and the and the restaurants and the businesses you know about how to go about the process of of dealing with this from a compostability and renewab
43:00 – idea that customers and consumers are becoming more conscious about sustainability and...
Starbucks founder and it was so interesting and it could literally it was e what you were saying Sierra earlier was echoing that you know the customer experience and that is important and you don’t want to compromise on that and I want to take a cue from what Bo was saying earlier and ask you about this idea that customers and consumers are becomin
53:00 – won't find a plastic bag at Burgerville um we use paper paper...
thing we we seek out uh negative feedback so that we can improve our processes and I I think it’s refreshing to hear and that’s why uh we love partnering with Burgerville because of that like um like-mindedness in terms of always trying to constantly improve the process and the guest experiences right um but what I found is that for those that have
64:00 – much of that petroleum based plastic with um bioplastics and alternative Plastics...
requirements associated with it you know you want to make sure that whatever is the ingredient in your you know bioplastics it does not leech into the foods or does not impact the consumer and so there’s there’s a lot more it’s a lot more complex when you’re talking a beverage cup or a condiment cup than it is with a straw or a Cutlery so there’s a
75:00 – quality fibers into Pulp and Paper processes for that packaging um and...
introducing um high quality fibers into Pulp and Paper processes for that packaging um and so we’re trying to do that but at a controlled Pace um ultimately over the next five years we’re looking to um uh max out our capacity and then set up Regional hubs to where we do localized manufacturing and production um throughout the United States we’ve um
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