5280 Waste Management

PROBLEMS

  • Developed business plans for two companies for biochar businesses - construction and demolition (C&D) company (urban mining) and forest services company (forest slash)

  • Identfied correct markets for final product sale and

  • Re-identified customer segments by qualifying buyers

SOLUTIONS

  • Tip wood waste (from construction sites and forest floors) cost clients money as waste stream

  • Saw linear waste stream (take - make - waste) as feedstock for carbon-sequestering material

  • Baffled by final products market - what and where it is