{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Flanigan's Eco-Logic","title":"Brandon Lapsys - Innovative Recycling Solutions To Keep Waste Out of Landfills","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2016,"description":"Brandon Lapsys explains that Viably's mission is to keep waste out of landfills. His company has thousands of customers, all working in concert to help with this goal, buying the solutions that his firm offers... be it a composting facility or a turn-key construction and demolition waste recycling plant. There are lots of different waste streams, no silver bullet, but a shared duty to pull valuable commodities out of waste streams and back into circular economies. Viably does this, selling solutions and selling equipment like shredders, windrow turners, separators, digesters, and more... all transforming garbage to materials that generate value and solve real-world problems.\nViably's work is critical: Our society is running out of landfill space and landfills. In the coming years, we will lose 35% of our landfills... making recycling ever-more important. Ted and Brandon talk about the major waste streams: Organics and food waste, construction and demolition wastes municipal solid waste, and single stream recycling. He explains that \"end markets\" for recycled products vary geographically. Then there are niche materials like windmill blades, tires, electronic wastes, and old solar panels. Brandon tells a positive story about repurposing windmill blades. One of his customers spent years developing new structural product that is made with a combination of blades and concrete. Viably provided the shredder and the new product avoids landfill costs and uses far less cement, thereby reducing carbon dioxide emissions. \nThe discussion shifts to how skeptics of recycling sour the big picture. How can we bust through the perception that recyclables are really being landfilled? Brandon explains that sometimes it is true, that in cases there are not the markets for these materials... so recyclables are sometimes sadly landfilled. But he suggests that people need to be a little curious: Visit your local recycling facility; go on a tour. Visit your landfill's education center....","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/7kUbICrzk0aEuZffrVBGprBuBqZJlmqp9h-fda_2pHg/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzM1MTQ0LzE3MTE1/NjgzMTctYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}