From Landfills to Roads: The Garbage Revolution
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What innovative solution is being proposed for waste management?
Anytime when you are making aggregate out of microplastics, you're removing it essentially from the environment where it affects us. Wow. And so we are a wonderful solution for reducing microplastics contamination in society.
Benjamin Horvat is a resource recovery entrepreneur, waste to materials technology innovator, and circular economy developer, and the founder of Lewis Structures LLC, known for transforming municipal solid waste into reusable plastic-based aggregate material called MSWAG.
The landfill material that's dumped and wasted all across the world can be put under roads as a construction aggregate that needs specification that is actually better than what we're using now. Do you feel like you're going to come in considerably cheaper because your source is literally garbage? We'll figure out what the market can bear for the prices, but I think the environmental benefit is massive. The reduction of the carbon footprint. Oh, yeah. Reduction of emissions, reductions of weight, transporting gravel on the road or concrete blocks on a road. Lots of really good stuff in the future.
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How does MSWAG technology transform waste into construction materials?
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Welcome to another episode of the Living Your Legacy podcast. Joining me today is Benjamin Horvat. He has got quite the journey. I've heard a couple of slangs, a couple of... Sir, what brings you to inside success today, my friend? Lewis Structures is a... groundbreaking solution for municipal solid waste.
What challenges does the founder face in scaling the business?
We're starting with cosmetic waste and potentially car plastic, but we are transforming that into an aggregate that meets specifications for under roads, potentially as a replacement for gravel in construction. And it's called Municipal Solid Waste Aggregate, MSWAG or MSWAG. That's what it was, MSWAG. Would you be officially the founder of the MSWAG? I am. Here it is, ladies and gentlemen, the founder of MSwag. So talk to me like I'm five. When I think of asphalt, when I think of roads, I think of F1 and the years that it took for Las Vegas to turn regular pavement into things that F1 cars can drive on. That's the F1 pivot. You, sir, what is your mission? What do you do day to day? I'm launching my first factory in Oosburg, Wisconsin.
Wow. At 217 North 10th Street with 17,000 square feet, about half a million dollars of equipment that's used. But we are in production, presently taking... Cosmetic waste at about 5 to 10 tons a day. Holy moly. And then transforming it into a plastic aggregate that is usable in construction. But eventually, we'll be able to wash and dry and pulverize and then mix with waste plastic, regular garbage from dumpsters. What? No way. And so it becomes like a sawdust and it's mixed with plastic and... brought through a plastic extruder. Right on. And when it's melted and chopped into pieces, it actually looks like gravel. It's a lightweight gravel, and it's 10 times as valuable than regular gravel in civil engineering.
And in the end, it has... huge benefits for under roads. It's actually stronger under roads, stronger under roads, otherwise. And so we're really excited that potentially the landfills of the future can be a, a source of construction, a source of construction for, uh,
How does the process of turning garbage into gravel work?
And they can be put under roads. The landfills, the landfill material that's dumped and wasted all across the world can be put under roads as a construction aggregate specification that is actually better than what we're using now. Isn't that insane? You found you found a problem. And as an entrepreneur, you found the solution. It's quite literally sitting there. It's a big pile of shit.
Yeah.
I always found it funny that you've got these giant ton trucks, just beep, beep, on these giant piles of, and you basically said, hold my beer, I'm gonna turn that into pavement.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What innovative solution is being proposed for waste management?
0:00–1:16
2
How does MSWAG technology transform waste into construction materials?
1:16–2:02
3
What challenges does the founder face in scaling the business?
2:02–4:07
4
How does the process of turning garbage into gravel work?
4:07–5:36
5
What is the significance of microplastics contamination in this context?
5:36–7:33
6
How does the patented technology ensure environmental safety?
7:33–9:44
7
What regulatory challenges are encountered in the waste-to-materials industry?
9:44–11:34
8
Why could landfills be valuable resources for construction in the future?
11:34–15:15
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