Author: CJ Nord

To bake bread, you need a baker. You can put the flour, yeast, and water in a room together. You can introduce them to each other and encourage them to network. You can incentivize them with grants, and tax breaks, and invite them to panel discussions, but those ingredients won’t become bread without a baker.
I’m the baker, and I’m baking up a circular supply chain.
The “ingredients” to this supply chain exist now, but unlike our bread analogy they aren’t in the same room yet. I am sourcing the right partners, building the partnerships, and assuring that everyone in this supply chain is making a fair profit. That’s a massive undertaking, but it is what supply chain leaders like me do every day.
Over the past 10 months I have worked on the solution for industrial wood waste. That same solution works for multiple types of biowaste including what BEAM is focused on, agricultural waste.
This ideal solution is to process the waste through a biomass reactor to convert it into valuable biochar which farmers can use to fertilize instead of purchasing soil amendments. The biomass reactors can also be mated up with equipment to generate electricity.
I bring all of the partners together, help with equipment selection, and all other aspects of the process. This is how supply chain infrastructure is built, and once all of the partners are making a profit it runs on its own.