Building a Zero Waste Circular Economy | American Innovators

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All across the country, everyday Americans are turning trash into treasure, building a zero-waste circular economy to strengthen food security, address the housing crisis, power our homes, clean up pollution, conserve water, and ultimately offset climate change. These scientists, entrepreneurs, dare-to-believers are building zero-waste solutions with anaerobic digestion, 3D printing, carbon capture, black soldier fly composting, sustainable brewing and more – transforming everything from plastic takeout containers, food waste, fallen trees, abandoned buildings, even toilet water – into a commodity. From brewers to carpenters, farmers to chefs, these Americans know that “good planets are hard to find,” and they’re committed to saving the world we live in, now and for generations to come.

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EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS
00:00 Nature loving innovators
00:40 Designing out waste
01:10 Circular economy explained
02:05 Charlotte, North Carolina’s Innovation Barn
02:20 Food waste off-gasses methane
02:51 How much food we throw away in America
03:02 Black soldier fly composting
04:17 Planting food forests
04:49 Anaerobic digestion turns food waste into natural gas
06:05 Breweries close loops to brew sustainable beer
06:20 Sierra Nevada leads as zero-waste LEED facility
06:43 O.H.S.O. brews beer with recycled water
06:59 Four Peaks Brewing sends spent grain to feed cows
07:37 Alaskan Brewing uses waste to power brewing
07:48 Materials sector innovates to close loops
07:58 Universal recycling?
08:14 Turning takeout plastic containers into PPE
08:49 Using wine bottles to make concrete
09:10 Carolina Urban Lumber turns urban wastes logs into furniture
10:14 3D printing with organic material instead of petroleum
10:59 The difference between biodegradable and compostable
11:24 3D printing homes to solve the housing crisis
11:41 Working together to build a sustainable world

Building a Zero Waste Circular Economy | American Innovators

Directed by Eric Feigenbaum and Jessie English
Created by Conor Gaughan and Kate Tucker
Written by Geoff Rock
Hosted by Kate Tucker
Executive Producer - Kate Tucker
Executive Producer - Jessie English
Executive Producer - Eric Feigenbaum
Executive Producer - Conor Gaughan

Featuring in order of appearance::
Dr. Susan MacKay - Senior R&D Program Manager, UMaine Advanced Structures & Composites Center
Amy Aussieker - Executive Director, Envision Charlotte
Patrick Conway - Co-Founder & Co-Owner, Great Lakes Brewing Company
Trevor Haskell - Director of Regulatory Compliance, Uinta Brewing Company
David Valder - Co-Founder, Crown Town Compost
Jeff Whitbeck - Project Coordinator, Wasatch Resource Recovery
Eric Theys - Co-Founder, Crown Town Compost
Brian Grossman - Vice President, 2nd Generation Brewery Owner, Sierra Nevada
Ashlee Mooneyhan - Communications Manager, Sierra Nevada
Scott Brady - Brewery Production Manager, O.H.S.O
Chris Meyer - General Manager, Four Peaks Brewing Company
Cale Aylsworth - Sales & Relations Ambassador, O.H.S.O. Brewery + Distillery
Geoff Larson - Co-Founder, Alaskan Brewing Company
Marcy Larson - Co-Founder, Alaskan Brewing Company
Damon Barron - Founder & Owner, Carolina Urban Lumber
James Anderson - Additive Manufacturing Research Thrust Leader, UMaine Advanced Structures & Composites Center
Dr. Habib Dagher - Executive Director, UMaine Advanced Structures & Composites Center

Produced by Consensus Digital Media in partnership with Remedial Media
Filmed in Maine, North Carolina, Ohio, Arizona, Utah, and Alaska

Supervising Producer - Geoff Rock
Editor - Sarah Krusen
Assistant Editors - Angaelica LaPasta, Dustin Waldman, Andie McMahon, David Connolly
Director of Photography - Isaac Rosenthal
Camera Operator - Eddie Bernard
Gaffer / Drone Operator - Fletcher Anstis
Director of Photography, Maine - Jared Watson
Camera Operator, Maine - Gabriel Judet-Weinshel
Sound Engineer - Tom Eichler
Production Coordinator - John Ryan Gage
Audio Mixer - Dillon Terry
Color Grading - Ind3x
Motion Graphics - Yuriy Netrebyuk
Music courtesy of Artlist & Soundstripe

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