Michael Schmidt - Gold Medal Environmental - From Europe to North America: A Zero-Waste-To-Landfill Solution
Finding Genius Podcast
Richard Jacobs
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 30 October 2018
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
If it doesn't end up in a landfill, the trash you throw into the dumpster will end up in an incinerator and release a number of toxic chemicals when burned, reducing air quality and contributing to carbon emissions. Existing waste collection and recycling companies are doing their best to recycle as much as possible, but their technology is limited, and with the relatively new restrictions from China on recyclable materials, we're dealing with a larger volume of waste than ever before. There's simply not a market for so many common waste materials, such as straws, plastic film, and fabrics.
Michael Schmidt is the executive vice president of strategic growth and development at Gold Medal Environmental, a company that's providing a landfill-free solution for commercial, residential, and construction materials. How does it work? Gold Medal Environmental uses a system backed by technology that captures the chemicals released during the decomposition of waste. Once captured, they are converted to supplemental coal, an EPA-recognized source of fuel. This will reduce the consumption of fossil fuels and prevent significant quantities of toxins from entering the atmosphere.
It's already been proven effective in Europe and is on its way to North America.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Almost Here, Around the Corner of Future Technology Podcasts with Richard Jacobs. |
| 0:07.0 | Future Technologies is to transform our lives for better or worse or the focus of this podcast. |
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| 0:21.0 | 3D printing, blockchain, virtual reality, and more. |
| 0:25.0 | Hello, this is Richard Jacobs with the Fusure Tech Podcast. My guest is Michael Schmidt, |
| 0:32.0 | Executive Vice President of Strategic Growth and Development at |
| 0:35.7 | Gold Medal Environmental. |
| 0:37.6 | And the website is Gold Medal. |
| 0:39.5 | So Mike, how you doing today? |
| 0:41.5 | Doing great. |
| 0:43.0 | Thanks for having me, Rich. |
| 0:44.0 | Yeah, so tell me about Gold Medal. |
| 0:46.0 | What is the company do? |
| 0:47.0 | What's the premise of it? |
| 0:48.0 | Yeah, so Gold Medal Environmental is our traditional solid waste collection, |
| 0:52.0 | recycling, and processing company, but we also put a spin on it using technology to manage food waste, which is one of the big problems with landfills today, as well as using a technology that's |
| 1:06.7 | proven in Europe, but we're bringing it to North America to better manage MSW, which is your traditional waste that you throw it at the curb to find |
| 1:16.4 | ways to turn it into a fuel so that it's not going into a landfill. |
| 1:21.6 | The primary focus at Gold Medal is to provide the proven true landfill free or zero waste to landfill solution. You have other technologies out there that will burn it, you know, |
| 1:37.1 | right, take it from the truck and put it into an incinerator. Other technologies try to recycle as much as they can, but they are not really able to be 100% landfill free or zero waste of landfill. |
| 1:52.0 | So you're focusing on preventing garbage getting to the landfill, but once it's at the landfill, |
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