Podcasts about national waste

Zak Mir talks to Paul Emmitt, CEO Powerhouse Energy (AIM: PHE), as the company pioneering integrated technology that converts non-recyclable waste into low carbon energy, announced an operational update in the wake of the recent oversubscribed retail offer of £400,000 and £260,000 battery developer contract.Powerhouse Energy looks to be moving into a more commercial phase, and the most interesting part of that shift is not just about technology. It is about timing, market need and where demand is now coming from.For a long time, the story around the company was heavily tied to hydrogen and the broader net zero narrative. That is still part of the picture, especially in certain projects. But the market has evolved. The stronger angle now is decarbonisation paired with energy security, and that combination is opening doors that were not as wide open even six or twelve months ago.That is the backdrop to the latest operational progress, which follows an oversubscribed retail offer and a third-party battery developer contract worth £260,000. The bigger message is that Powerhouse is trying to prove that it is more than an early-stage technology story. It wants to show it has real engineering capability, growing commercial traction and a product that fits a changing global energy market.A step closer to commercialityOne of the clearest signs of progress is the introduction of third-party work into the business. This matters because it is not simply work flowing through a historic channel or linked to an internal arrangement. It is direct business for Powerhouse itself.That may sound like a small distinction, but strategically it is important. It demonstrates that the expertise inside the company has value beyond the core waste-to-energy technology alone. In effect, the business is beginning to validate its broader engineering and technical competence in the market.That matters for two reasons: It helps bring the company forward faster by generating commercial activity now. It reinforces the core competency that will ultimately help sell the technology at scale. The company is also pushing this momentum through newer marketing activity and sales agreements in multiple regions. The effort is no longer limited to one or two flagship opportunities. It is becoming a wider commercial campaign.Why the market is changing in Powerhouse Energy's favourThe most striking theme is the shift in customer motivation.Historically, many conversations in clean technology revolved around net zero targets, emissions reduction and environmental policy. Those issues still matter, but they are now being joined, and in some cases overtaken, by a more immediate concern: security of supply.Across the world, energy markets have become more volatile. Geopolitical disruption in the Middle East, the continuing effects of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, and broader fossil fuel price instability have made businesses and governments think much harder about resilience.That is where Powerhouse sees its opportunity.If a region or business produces waste and depends on imported fossil fuels, especially diesel, then converting that waste into low carbon energy becomes about more than sustainability. It becomes a practical route to greater independence and better control over energy costs.That is a far more urgent conversation.The appeal of using local waste for local energyThe company's proposition is straightforward in principle: many regions already have a waste stream many of those same regions are exposed to expensive or insecure fuel imports turning local non-recyclable waste into energy can reduce that dependence That message appears to be resonating particularly strongly in island markets and remote locations.Places that rely heavily on diesel generation have been hit hard by rising fuel costs. Yet they also generate waste that needs dealing with. For those markets, a waste-to-energy solution addresses two problems at once: waste management energy security This is one reason why recent commercial agreements matter. The company has signed sales arrangements with Green Gecko, with HUI for Central Europe, and another covering the Caribbean islands. These are not random geographies. They line up with exactly the kind of market conditions the company believes now favour its technology.Hydrogen still matters, but it is no longer the whole storyPowerhouse was originally built around a strong hydrogen focus, and that remains relevant in specific projects. The best example is Ballymena, which is expected to be the company's flagship hydrogen development.The Ballymena project is progressing through planning, and while the pace is not as fast as management would like, the direction appears positive.There are a few notable points here: the planning process is advancing through the council system community feedback has not presented major issues the main comments received appear to relate to matters that could likely have been addressed before submission rather than fundamental opposition the next key step is receiving the Environment Agency response to the planning application Once that is in place, the company intends to apply for a permit.That permitting stage may not be quick. The project could require the first permit of its kind in Northern Ireland, which means there may be some education needed along the way. That is often the reality for businesses pioneering a newer category of infrastructure. It is not necessarily a red flag, but it does add friction and time.Still, Ballymena remains important because it would give the market a visible hydrogen-led reference project. In a company like this, proving the first flagship matters enormously.Australia could be the real game changerIf Ballymena is the hydrogen flagship, Australia may be the bigger commercial catalyst.Progress there appears encouraging. The company has applied for government funding to support part of the early-stage project work, and it has brought National Waste to Energy into discussions with Green Gecko. The confidence expressed around early funding suggests management sees a realistic path to moving the project forward.The key phrase here is FID, or final investment decision.If an Australian project reaches FID, that would be a major milestone. It would represent a meaningful step from concept and development into a much more tangible commercial phase. That is why management is putting real emphasis on it.For early-stage energy and clean technology businesses, getting a project to FID can change the market's perception of risk. It suggests that technical, financial and practical hurdles are being cleared. In that context, the Australian opportunity stands out as one of the most significant pieces of the current pipeline.

In this episode of the Environmental Transformation Podcast, host Sean Grady welcomes Michael Hoffman, president and CEO of the National Waste and Recycling Association (NWRA). Hoffman shares his 37 years of experience in the waste and recycling industry, discusses NWRA's advocacy efforts at the local, state, and federal levels, and outlines his vision for improving safety, membership engagement, and industry innovation. He also explains the challenges surrounding packaging EPR, PFAS regulation, battery recycling, and workforce development. Learn how technology, policy, and collaboration are shaping the future of waste and recycling.Thanks to our Sponsors for their support of the podcast: Cascade Environmental, E-Tank, and WasteLinq.

Donate Here to Help buy 1 truck: https://gofund.me/cb4e681d Over 36,000 people are part of this association of waste pickers in Kenya and it's a truly impressive story about how they are working to make a circular economy while being healthy and safe and having a living wage. So much needs to be done to make this fair! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/packaging-today-show/id1656906367Join Us Live Daily on LinkedIn Or YouTube or listen at your leisure on Apple or Spotify Packaging Today Podcast https://open.spotify.com/show/6dksVwqEFVDWdggd27fyFF?si=e924995740f94e19https://www.linkedin.com/in/cory-connors/I'm here to help you make your packaging more sustainable! Reach out today and I'll get back to you asap. This podcast is an independent production and the podcast production is an original work of the author. All rights of ownership and reproduction are retained—copyright 2022.

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This week on our NothingWasted! Podcast, we chat with Anne Germain, vice president of technical and regulatory affairs for the National Waste & Recycling Association (NWRA) and a Women Who Inspire award winner, about consumer education, plastic exports, landfills and more. If you are a fan of the show, be sure to leave us a 5-Star review on Apple Podcasts! Connect with us! Instagram: @WasteExpoTwitter: @Waste360 & @Waste_ExpoFacebook: @Waste360's WasteExpoTikTok: @WasteExpo    Liz Bothwell on Twitter: @LizBothwell  Subscribe to our newsletters.

For employers and employees within the waste and recycling industry, safety is top of mind. It's important that we not only stay safe on the job but that we are keeping others around us safe as well. In this 60-minute session, safety experts will outline workplace safety best practices, tips for preventing and addressing distracted driving, effective safety training strategies and more. Speakers: Kevin Fitzgerald, Director of Safety, Recology, Inc. Romeo Vellutini, Director of Environmental Health & Safety, Waste Pro USA Selin Hoboy, Vice President, EHS & Compliance, GFL Environmental Shawn Mandel, Vice President, Safety & Risk, Waste Connections Kirk Sander (Moderator), Chief of Staff and Vice President of Safety and Standards, National Waste and Recycling Association

Listen in to hear a great perspective in this week's NothingWasted! podcast. This Boots on the Ground panel at WasteExpo was presented by the National Waste & Recycling Association Women's Council to highlight the wide variety of women's career experiences within the waste and recycling industry. You will hear about the ever-changing industry, the challenges they face, and the new innovations and technologies they are using on the job. You will learn from Paige Coakley, sales executive-collections; WIN Waste Innovations; Domenica Farmer, AVP for the Gulf Coast Area, WM; Kim Luick, operations/office Manager, Waste Connections; Jennifer Solewski, VP, Business & Technical Development, Bayshore Recycling Corp.; and Norma Yanez, government contracts manager, GFL Environmental. It was moderated by Samantha Podgorny, product manager-Electric Refuse Trucks, Heil Environmental. If you are a fan of the show, be sure to leave us a 5-Star review on Apple Podcasts! Connect with us! Instagram: @WasteExpo Twitter: @Waste360 & @Waste_Expo Facebook: @Waste360's WasteExpo TikTok: @WasteExpo Liz Bothwell on Twitter: @LizBothwell Subscribe to our newsletters.

You know how you put all your recycling—cans, bottles, cardboard, etc.—into the same bin? Well, have you ever wondered how all that stuff gets sorted out at the recycling factory? It's done mostly by humans.  If you watch a video about how it's done, rest assured you're not likely to apply for this job. These folks are standing at a conveyor belt with recyclable trash whizzing by them at every moment and they need to pick pieces off the line to put into the proper bins at a rate of 40 items per minute! It's tough to watch the work for 30 seconds, so imagine how tough it must be to do that work for hours every day.  Well, Matanya Horowitz had a different idea. He'd been obsessed with robots since he was a kid, and fresh out of his PhD program, he wondered whether he could teach robots to sort trash more effectively and efficiently than humans.  The dude started in 2014 by dumpster diving with his girlfriend to get trash which he could start training his AI on. Then he got some government grants to hire himself and a couple others. Fast forward to today, and Horowitz's AMP Robotics has raised $75 million from investors, employs 250 humans, has deployed a similar number of robots at recycling factories on three continents that have now sorted billions of pieces of trash, and has even opened their own recycling factory in Ohio.  Their robots pick at a rate of anywhere from 80 to 120 pieces per minute, don't need breaks, don't get covid, and importantly, they alter the economics of recycling to make it far more likely that what goes into the recycling bin actually ends up getting recycled. In this episode, we talk all about the economics of AMP's robots, the trajectory Matanya took from being an academic roboticist to becoming a CEO, the role venture capital has played in the company, what mistakes along the way were made, whether he thinks robots will ever become sentient, and more. It's an impressive and inspirational story from a scientist who's using his business to help solve a pressing sustainability problem for humanity. Discussed in this episode Matanya is influenced by the Jewish tale of Golem He's also a big fan of Isaac Asimov's work And he recommends reading The Innovator's Dilemma and Paul Graham's essays Matanya gave a cool TEDx speech about robotics   Want to read a transcript of this episode? You're in luck!    More about Matanya Horowitz Dr. Matanya Horowitz is the Founder and CEO of AMP Robotics™ an industrial artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics company that is fundamentally changing the economics of recycling, by lowering processing costs and extracting maximum value from waste streams. Matanya developed and commercialized AMP's breakthrough AI platform, AMP Neuron™, and robotics system, AMP Cortex™, which automates high-speed identification, sorting, picking, and processing of material streams. AMP's machine learning technology continuously improves performance adapting to the complex, ever changing material characteristics of municipal solid waste, construction and demolition (C&D), e-waste, and metal scrap. Recognizing attributes down to the SKU and Brand level, AMP can provide unprecedented data transparency and insights on waste streams to inform decisions and unite the value chain of circularity. Matanya was just individually recognized as Waste360's ‘2019 Innovator of the Year' award, in addition to being named to their ‘40 under 40' list. AMP has received numerous awards and international recognition, including The Circulars 2018 Award for ‘Circular Economy Top Tech Disruptor' at the World Economic Forum in Davos, and the NWRA's (National Waste and Recycling Association) ‘2017 Innovator of the Year' award. Matanya earned multiple degrees including a BS in Electrical Engineering, BS in Computer Science, BS in Applied Mathematics, BA in Economics, and MS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Colorado Boulder. Matanya holds a PhD in Control and Dynamical Systems from the California Institute of Technology with publications and research in control theory, path planning, and computer vision.

During this fireside chat, Republic Services President and CEO Jon Vander Ark and National Waste & Recycling Association President and CEO Darrell Smith will discuss leadership; labor; diversity, equity and inclusion; safety; industry challenges; and more. Vander Ark, who joined Republic Services in 2013 as executive vice president, chief marketing officer, was named president and CEO of the company in June 2021. Join us as Vander Ark discusses his rise to CEO, his strategy for sustainably handling customers' environmental services needs, where we currently stand as an industry and what may be in store for the industry in the future. Connect with us! Instagram: @WasteExpo Twitter: @Waste360 OR @Waste_Expo Facebook: @Waste360's WasteExpo Liz Bothwell on Twitter: @LizBothwell Subscribe to our newsletters: https://www.waste360.com/resources/subscribe-our-waste360-newsletters

For the majority of people, waste management is a mystifying force with operations that vary widely from state to state and even differ across county lines. In this episode Oakley and Sara interview a variety of thought leaders and in the waste and recycling space. Trash Magic is excited to feature our friends and colleagues from the National Waste and Recycling Associations (NWRA) Women's Council! Featuring: Samantha Podgorny, the Product Manager of the Electric Refuse Trucks at Heil Environmental Peggy Macenas, the Vice President of the Midwest Region at National Waste & Recycling Association (NWRA) Katie Evans, Government Affairs at Best Way Disposal and President of th Women's Council at NWRA --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/trashmagic/message

In this week’s Waste360 NothingWasted! podcast, we talk with Chaz Miller, industry veteran and longtime former director at National Waste & Recycling Association (NWRA). Now semi-retired, Miller has spent 40+ years in the waste and recycling industry. Hear his smart insights on the current hot market for recycled materials, the impact of technology on the industry, what the future may hold, and more. #NothingWastedPodcast Read his "John Oliver Is Wrong: Recycling Is All About Individual Responsibility" article here: https://www.waste360.com/recycling/john-oliver-wrong-recycling-all-about-individual-responsibility

The last few years, recycling has been one longer roller coaster ride consisting of steep drops, sharp turns, and dizzying speeds - setting hearts racing around blind turns and leaving even the most seasoned professional breathless. Our speakers will discuss what has happened so far, what is around the next curve and whether we can expect the ride to flatten out. Speakers will talk: COVID-19 OECD/Basel Marine Debris Import Bans Volatile Pricing EPR Contracts and Contamination National Recycling Program Opportunities Speakers: Brent Bell, Vice President Recycling/President WMRA, Waste Management Peter Wright, Assistant Administrator Office of Land and Emergency Management, Environmental Protection Agency Bridget Anderson, Deputy Commissioner, Recycling and Sustainability, NYC Department of Sanitation (DSNY) Moderated by: Anne Germain, Chief Operating Officer & Senior Vice President, Regulatory Affairs, National Waste & Recycling Association

With more than 30 years of experience in the solid waste industry, Founder and Executive Chairman of Waste Connections Ronald J. Mittelstaedt will sit down with NWRA President Darrell Smith to share his take on leadership, the future of M&A, company culture, and predictions for the industry over the coming years. Moderated by: Darrell Smith, President & CEO, National Waste & Recycling Association

The National Waste and Recycling Association (NWRA)(https://wasterecycling.org/) is the voice in the nation’s capital for the waste and recycling industry, an industry that accounts for over 1 million jobs and generates a quarter of a trillion dollars in the U.S. economy. The NWRA has 700+ member companies operating in all 50 states, including publicly-traded and privately-owned local, regional, and Fortune 500 national and international companies. The organization represents more than 70% of the private sector waste and recycling market. NWRA’s President and CEO, Darrell Smith, and Manager of Government Affairs, Jonathan Taylor, join the podcast to discuss their experience working in the industry, misconceptions about careers in waste and recycling, as well as career opportunities for veterans. Additional Resources: NWRA Job Center- https://jobs.wasterecycling.org/jobseekers/ NWRA Infographic - https://cdn.ymaws.com/wasterecycling.org/resource/resmgr/images/infographic.jpg NWRA Economic Data Impact and Salaries by state *2016 - https://cdn.ymaws.com/wasterecycling.org/resource/resmgr/Economic_Data_Industry.pdf

Anne Germain, VP, Technical & Regulatory Affairs, National Waste & Recycling Association, has seen the waste and recycling industry transform over the last 25 years. We talked with Anne about the new reality of recycling, PFAS, packaging, customer education, plastic exports, and more! (oh and why she gave up her car!) #NothingWastedPodcast

Darrell K. Smith is President & Chief Executive Officer of the National Waste and Recycling Association. Since 2002, Darrell has been active in the public policy arena in Washington, DC. Previous to his current position in the waste industry, he represented the mining, petroleum and chemical industries. Darrell has a reputation of assisting heavy industry in the promotion of a positive, progressive image.  Prior to his public policy career, Darrell worked in the environmental and safety compliance fields for a number of industries including hazardous waste, telecommunications and electronics. He is a Certified Industrial Hygienist (CIH) by the American Board of Industrial Hygiene. Darrell resides in Washington, DC. The National Waste & Recycling Association is the trade association representing private-sector U.S. waste and recycling companies, as well as the manufacturers and service providers.

GUESTS: Monica Martinez: President and Secretary, Hispanics in Energy; former Michigan Public Service Commissioner How net metering hurts the poor; Travis Fisher: Economist, Institute for Energy Research; formerly with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission The Escalating Cost of Electricity; Paul Nielsen: Oil and gas landman, attorney Consumers perspective on changes in recycling due to low oil prices; and Chris Doherty: Vice President, National Waste and recycling Association Oil price’s impact on recycling.