Good Garbage with Ved Krishna

When we interacted with Tastee Tape Founder, Marie Eric at the Rethinking Materials Summit in London, we knew she'd be the perfect guest for our show. And we're so glad she agreed! With an educational background in biomolecular engineering and a spark to challenge the status quo of food wrapping, her vision is truly inspiring. We discuss her fascinating journey from going viral in 2022 for the bur...

Hello, hello! It's Good Garbage News! Every month, in addition to our regular episodes with Ved's interviews, we'll post an industry update with the latest updates in both sustainable packaging and packaging regulations all across the world. Learn more 🌱 BPI CalRecycle Update 🌱 FSSAI rPET Guidelines 🌱 Scott Bolin Episode 🌱 Kelly Williams Episode Never miss an episode by following u...

Environment day at Good Garbage couldn’t have been greener! 🌳 In today’s episode, GreenKey Group co-founder and fellow podcaster, Kelly Williams brings in his unique expertise in the field of sustainable packaging. We discuss his early influences, the challenges and lessons learned in the petroleum polymer industry, and do a deep dive into the complexities of flexible packaging and recycling.  Th...

What a month it has been for the Good Garbage Podcast team! The team attended the Rethinking Materials Summit in London and we’re still not over how incredibly insightful the whole experience was!  The Summit gave us a chance do one of those rare in person recordings with Scott Bolin, the founder of TerraSafe Materials and President of DisSolves. Scott has such a diverse background, having explore...

The Good Garbage team is always excited to have a guest give us a customer’s perspective on sustainable packaging, and that’s what we have for you in this episode!  Maddie Hamann is the co-founder of Pacha, a gluten-free organic bread. Their ingredients are sourced from regenerative agriculture, and their bread is packaged in a home compostable bread bag.   With brands, big and small, complaining...

For years, Simone Schuppan incorporated smalls habits in her daily life for adhering to a more sustainable lifestyle - whether it be using public transport or avoiding single use plastic. Little did she know though that her work would also become all about sustainability! When the pandemic hit and forced her to reassess her professional choices, it was clear to her that she wanted to do something...

Hello, hello! It's Good Garbage News! Every month, in addition to our regular episodes with Ved's interviews, we'll post an industry update with the latest updates in both sustainable packaging and packaging regulations all across the world. Hosted by Alex Moore & Nupoor Bansal

It took 75 episodes for us to get someone from Eastern Europe, and we couldn't have asked for a better representative! Angela Ivanova, the co-Founder & CEO at LAM'ON, is a Bulgaria based entrepreneur who is working along with Gergana Stancheva and Philip Ublekov to create a bio-based and compostable thermal laminating film. Currently in the final stages of development, their film provides a su...

Hello, hello!  From a software engineer to the founder of a compostable packaging company, the story of Rich Cohen, our guest for this episode is the stuff of biopics! An environmentalist and problem solver at core, Rich was traveling on his sabbatical when he realised that plastic had reached even the most remote corners of the world. This is what led to him founding Elevate Packaging as a soluti...

Hello, hello! It's Good Garbage News! Every month, in addition to our regular episodes with Ved's interviews, we'll post an industry update with the latest updates in both sustainable packaging and packaging regulations all across the world. Hosted by Alex Moore & Nupoor Bansal

Hello, hello!  Are you ready to geek out over biochemistry and compostable polymers with us?    Well, you better be! Cause we have Dr. Evan White joining us to talk about the incredible work he’s doing as the Director of The BiosenaticSM Lab.   This analytical lab is part of the University of Georgia's New Materials Institute and provides essential insights into product safety and biodegradabi...

Hello, hello!  Here’s a riddle - What do Methane and Mangoes have in common? We’ll have to ask Molly Morse and find out!    CEO and co-founder of Mango Materials, Molly is working to produce biodegradable plastics (PHA) made from waste biogas that are economically competitive with conventional oil-based plastics.     Her journey from a civil engineer to doing her PhD in bio-based materials is insp...

Hello, hello!  We’re continuing strong in 2025 as we welcome the CEO of Blue Ocean Closures, Lars Sandberg in our second episode of this year!   With a mechanical engineering background and a speciality in paper and pulp, Lars used his expertise in fibre to create cellulose bases closures.   These cellulose fibers are strong, biobased and biodegradable and do not leave behind any microplastics whe...

Hello, hello! It's Good Garbage News! Every month, in addition to our regular episodes with Ved's interviews, we'll post an industry update with the latest updates in both sustainable packaging and packaging regulations all across the world. Hosted by Alex Moore & Nupoor Bansal

Hello, hello!  We couldn’t have asked for a better guest to kick off the new year as we welcome 2025’s first guest Susan Thoman on our podcast!   She brings with her 3 decades worth of wisdom and as the Managing Director of Compost Manufacturing Alliance, her insights in the field of composting and certifications are unparalleled.   We talk about her incredible journey and the motivation behind he...

Hello, hello!  We’re joined by bug expert and patent machine Mounir Izallalen in this episode. An expert in microbiology and it’s applications to provide solutions to real life problems, he’s currently working on creating compostable food packaging solutions with Eastman’s brand Aventa.   With Cellulose Acetate being the main ingredient used to create Aventa’s sustainable packaging, Mounir does a...

Hello, hello! It's Good Garbage News! Every month, in addition to our regular episodes with Ved's interviews, we'll post an industry update with the latest updates in both sustainable packaging and packaging regulations all across the world. Hosted by Alex Moore & Nupoor Bansal

Hello, hello! What happens when a priest and an art director get together and start their own company?   They create a sustainable and ethical gourmet chocolate company that’s taking the world of cocoa lovers by a storm!   Join Ved Krishna as he unravels the riveting journeys of chocolate connoisseur and creative visualiser, Jeanyves Verdu and a salt of the earth priest and real estate agent, Norm...

Hello, hello! In today’s episode we welcome a dear friend and a chemistry nerd through and through - Sanjay Monie - who brings with him a treasure trove of in-depth knowledge in the field of material science!     We talk about his experience of over two decades in the field of inks and coatings industry and how he has combined this expertise with his strategic decision making skills and applied it...

An entrepreneur with an endless thirst for finding a solution to the unknown, Scott Segal found his calling when he went back to his roots and decided to find a solution to the billions of pizza boxes ending up in landfills.   The “barrier” which prevented these boxes from being biodegradable is polyethylene and that’s where JANUS comes into the picture.   With sheer will power and determination,...

She calls herself an energy ball who helps propel businesses to the next stage and we couldn’t agree more! Our guest for this episode, Jenny Garbis, is a Business Consultant, Growth Marketer, PR person, Lead Generator and more all rolled into one ☄️💥   The utopian idea of an ethical future as her motivator since the young age of 12, being an entrepreneur is in her genes and it led to her starting...

A disruptor in the food packaging industry before it became a buzzword, Ralph Bianculli is a force to reckon with. Inspired by his son’s depleting health in the mid 1990s, he invested in research to find solutions to manufacture food packaging using materials that are “respectful to the environment” From being an integral part of a company that was at one point the biggest distributors of foam cup...

It was eight years ago when Ved met Gary and Richard for the first time in Australia. Their commitment to customers, and business were inspiring, and years later they would make the list of must-have guests on the Good Garbage podcast. Today, with Gary as the CEO and Richard the Founder of Biopak, they have made amazing progress in Australia and the rest of the world. Enjoy this conversation with...

World Centric has done so much for the compostables industry, and inspired Ved in his journey as well. Having them on the show was a no-brainer - but what we learned was so much more than we expected. The paths that resource recovery managers Elly Ventura and Erin Levine have followed are so exciting - and a must listen. They even started their own podcast, More Than A Fork. Enjoy this conversatio...

When it comes to thinking about sustainability - and more specifically, sustainability goals around plastic reduction, we knew that Sander Defruyt, the Lead of the New Plastics Economy Initiative at the Ellen MacArthur Foundation was the person to talk to. Sander took such a systems approach to all the issues - and talked on so many important topics, like the global plastics treaty, the challenges...