Waste to Value
Waste to Value is a bi-weekly podcast devoted to exploring the waste-to-value economy and celebrating the innovators who are creating economic and environmental value from harmful waste streams.Across markets and industries, builders and manufacturers are achieving some remarkable things, taking everything from forestry products and fabric to agricultural waste and so much more, and redirecting them into new materials that become critical feedstocks for the very things the human species needs to live and prosper.Hosted by Justin R. Wolf, an independent journalist working at the intersection of sustainable design, regenerative materials, energy policy, and climate justice, Waste to...
Ep.2 Waste is Context: Synthesizing a new kind of biochar from wastewater sludge
Featured guest Garrett Benisch is Chief Development Officer at Bioforcetech Corporation, a Bay Area company turning organic waste into carbon negative materials. Bioforcetech promotes a few basic tenets: Stop Landfill, Protect Ecosystems, and Utilize Waste, to name just a few. That last one is important.
In the company’s efforts to Fix and Store Carbon (two other tenets), Bioforcetech manufactures a distinct form of biochar called OurCarbon. Biochar is made when biomass sources like trees and plants undergo pyrolysis to yield an ashy and sterile carbon byproduct – has been used to improve soil fert...
Ep.1 Solutions That Work: A conversation about carbon storage and removal technologies
For the inaugural episode of Waste to Value, I connected with Lew Epstein, CEO of Lot21, a non-profit content platform and resource for advancing climate action across the built environment to help decarbonize the world.
Lew’s environmental advocacy began decades ago with the emergence of the forestry stewardship movement and has since expanded to encompass a broader range of carbon removal solutions focused on restoring our climate.
Our conversation delves into the topics of Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) and waste-to-value solutions, highlighting the evolution of these areas and th...
