Good Garbage Podcast

18/01/2024

🚨 INTRODUCING 🚨

Good Garbage News!

Join us every month as we will release a bonus episode of Good Garbage with the latest updates in the sustainable packaging industry.

This episode will have all the headlines from the industry, and will be your one stop shop to keep up with all the news on products, funding and policy that is happening in the world around you.

It will be hosted by our producer, Alex Moore - but don't worry. New interviews with Ved Krishna will still come out as usual. We saw an opportunity to highlight even more amazing companies and people that are accomplishing incredible things, and we could not pass it up.

Check out the full episode on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and wherever you listen to podcasts about leaving the planet cleaner. You'll hear about the following in today's episode:

Floreon | TIPA® Compostable Packaging | Material Impact | Neighbourhood Coffee | European Council | COP28 UAE

13/12/2023

“Bioplastics are such a unique thing to people, and I think a lot of consumers are unaware that quality, plant-based products are out there. It’s just such a new industry, and that education is important.” -Dillon Baxter, PlantSwitch

We’ve crunched the numbers, and what did we find? PlantSwitch is raising the bar with their innovative agave solutions to single-use plastics! But how did they manage to grow their business and land $3.25 million in their latest seed round? Find out in today’s episode with their co-founder and CEO: https://anchor.fm/good-garbage-with-ved-krishna/episodes/Financing-Agave-and-Agro-Waste-Products-with-Dillon-Baxter-e1qigj0

Hosted by Ved Krishna!

21/11/2023

We've got a NEW episode on Thursday - so catch up with our latest episode of while you wait!

‎Show Good Garbage with Ved Krishna, Ep Making Garbage Disappear with Sharon Barak - Nov 9, 2023

26/10/2023

🍃 NEW EPISODE 🍃

Available NOW!

We've been waiting to share this one with you - it's TIPA® Compostable Packaging CEO Daphna Nissenbaum joining Good Garbage. She discusses all the work TIPA has accomplished, while sharing her mindset both currently and while entering the packaging industry.

She also uses the phrase "violent growth" and why she thinks it should apply to packaging.

We want to send a huge thank you to Daphna for joining us from Israel. We recorded this just days after the October 7th attacks and we wish everyone safety and peace in these difficult times.

24/10/2023

It's been a goal of ours since the show started to have TIPA® Compostable Packaging on the show - and we made it happen!

Join us on Thursday for an exciting episode as TIPA CEO, Daphna Nissenbaum takes the time to speak with Ved about the main issues with packaging, her solutions, and what she would do if she could start packaging from scratch!

See you on Thursday - wherever you listen to podcasts about leaving the planet cleaner 🎧 🍃

18/10/2023

"Good Garbage is transformation. If that garbage can be transformed into multiple different things, in multiple different ways - I think that's pretty good garbage." - Love-Ese Chile

Check out our latest episode NOW! 🎧 🍃

‎Show Good Garbage with Ved Krishna, Ep The Storytelling of Science with Love-Ese Chile - Oct 12, 2023

05/10/2023

If you haven't listened yet - our latest episode with the CEO of BIOTEC - Stefan Barot!

Check it out wherever you listen to podcasts 🎧

‎Show Good Garbage with Ved Krishna, Ep No More Linear Thinking with Stefan Barot - Sep 28, 2023

19/09/2023

If you haven't already listened - we had a great conversation with the CEO of Polymers Ltd - Mark Lapping!

Listen now wherever you listen to podcasts about leaving the planet cleaner!

‎Show Good Garbage with Ved Krishna, Ep We Need New Materials with Mark Lapping - Sep 14, 2023

06/09/2023

"Good Garbage is something that can be recycled, can be reused, can be composted. It is something that will have a second-life, somehow."

If you haven't listened to our latest episode of Good Garbage with Cory Connors - the Director of Sustainable Packaging for Orora Packaging Solutions - listen now!

‎Show Good Garbage with Ved Krishna, Ep Second Life & Value Streams with Cory Connors - Aug 31, 2023

01/09/2023

🍃 NEW EPISODE 🍃

Cory Connors () join us this week - and he talked with Ved about perspective - and how important it is in sustainability.

The Director of Sustainable Packaging for Orora Packaging Solutions, Cory is also the Founder & Host of the Sustainable Packaging Podcast.

This is a fun conversation, we hope you enjoy it as much as we did!

LISTEN NOW - wherever you listen to podcasts.

29/08/2023

Few people in this world make the packaging industry as understandable and available as this Thursday's guest on Good Garbage, Cory Connors.

He does so many different things - he hosts the Sustainable Packaging Podcast, and he's the Director of Sustainable Packaging for Orora Packaging Solutions

This new episode drops Thursday, can't wait for you to listen.

24/08/2023

Every episode of Good Garbage ends with the same question - what does Good Garbage mean to you?

We love the diversity of all the different answers we get - especially when we heard from Ved Krishna!

Comment YOUR answer down below 🍃

10/08/2023

Follow us at Good Garbage - as we continue to grow outside our boundaries.

Together - we all need to think bigger, as the problem is larger than us.

Through our podcast, we interview and bring light to people who all have one thing in common - leaving the planet cleaner.

10/08/2023

What IS good garbage? Ved Krishna, host of Good Garbage Podcast, talks with Steve Davies about visiting the landfill as a child, his journey to NatureWorks 20 years ago, and our current accomplishments with PLA. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/good-garbage-with-ved-krishna/id1613337676?i=1000623349383

08/08/2023

If you haven't already listened, and need something to get through the week - check out Steve Davies, from NatureWorks on !

Steve is a great storyteller, has a ton of experience (20 years at NatureWorks!) and even shows off his knowledge that started with a chemical engineering degree!

Listen to it NOW! Available at your favorite place to listen to podcasts 🎧

‎Show Good Garbage with Ved Krishna, Ep A Culture of Discard with Steve Davies - Aug 3, 2023

01/08/2023

"We've become a culture of discard"

Steve Davies has us feeling all nostalgic for those moments when we use to take things apart! Maybe you still do - but as Steve says, things have changed tremendously.

We have such a great episode coming up for you on Thursday, Steve - Vice President, Performance Packaging at NatureWorks joins the show and talks about the exciting work they're accomplishing, how his youth influenced him and so much more!

It was so fun to have Steve on the show, and we can't wait to share this episode. New Good Garbage, out Thursday PST - wherever you listen 💚

31/07/2023

‎Show Good Garbage with Ved Krishna, Ep Waste is Ubiquitous with Daniela Engelberg - Jul 20, 2023

20/07/2023

🌱 NEW EPISODE 🌱

Daniela Engelberg joins Ved this week as she talks about UBQ Materials and their ability to convert the waste stream into a plastic substitute.

When we heard about this - we knew we had to have them on the show. Listen to our latest episode to hear exactly how UBQ works - and their plan for the future.

The latest episode of Good Garbage is OUT NOW.