Sustainne Podcast, Waste Series

Episode: Josh Cohen, Founder & CEO, The Junkluggers

Summary

Welcome to the Sustainne Podcast where we are uniting, nurturing and growing a community dedicated to sustainable living. We dig into tough sustainability issues and share the best tips and advice about how to solve them at your home or business. Our guest experts are owners of small, innovative businesses in our community that are also members of Sustainne. We have big, urgent problems and these businesses have solutions.

Today we continue our waste series in an effort to better understand our growing waste problem and find ways to tackle it. Today we’re going to discuss your junk and how to keep it out of incinerators and landfills when you want to get rid of it at your home or business. Our guest is Josh Cohen, Founder & CEO of The Junkluggers, a full service eco-friendly junk removal service for your home or business. Headquartered in Fairfield County, CT, they now have over 60 franchise locations across the eastern US and are an important player in the reuse or circular economy.

Our executive producer is Peter van Geldern of UnFOLD Creative.

Sustainne Waste Podcast Series

Episode: Nick Skeadas, Curbside Compost

Summary

Welcome to the Sustainne Podcast where we are uniting, nurturing and growing a community dedicated to sustainable living. We dig into tough sustainability issues and share the best tips and advice about how to solve them at your home or business. Our guest experts are owners of small, innovative businesses in our community that are also members of Sustainne. We have big, urgent problems and these businesses have solutions.

Today we launch our waste series in an effort to better understand our growing waste problem and find ways to tackle it. We’re going to discuss the food portion of that waste and its strategic importance in helping our state reach its mandated goal of 60 percent diversion of waste from disposal by the year 2024. Our guest is Nick Skeadas, owner of Curbside Compost in Ridgefield, CT a provider of food waste pick up services in Fairfield County, CT. We’re taking a deep dive into food waste: how much is being wasted by whom, collection and repurposing successes and challenges, and viable solutions to going zero food waste. We can all be part of the solution as long as we’re informed and empowered to take positive steps.