{"id":4861,"date":"2026-02-16T11:00:54","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T12:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baldheadedgirls.com\/?p=4861"},"modified":"2026-02-19T14:54:25","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T14:54:25","slug":"sustainability-in-your-ear-curbwastes-mike-marmo-is-building-the-waste-logistics-layer-of-the-circular-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/baldheadedgirls.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/16\/sustainability-in-your-ear-curbwastes-mike-marmo-is-building-the-waste-logistics-layer-of-the-circular-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"Sustainability In Your Ear: CurbWaste\u2019s Mike Marmo Is Building the Waste Logistics Layer of the Circular Economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"bsf_rt_marker\"><\/div>\n<div>The U.S. waste management industry moves more than 290 million tons of municipal solid waste each year. This is a potential trillion-dollar market, but much of the work still relies on paper tickets, clipboards, and spreadsheets. About 10,000 independent haulers handle a large share of collection and materials transfer in the U.S. In this business, a single truck costs $300,000, and profits depend on efficient routes. Most haulers do not have access to the digital tools that other logistics industries have used for years. Mike Marmo, CEO and founder of <a href=\"https:\/\/curbwaste.com\">CurbWaste<\/a>, is building a new operating system to change this. His goal is to create the data foundation needed for the circular economy to work. He is a fourth-generation waste industry professional who started his career as a scale operator at a family transfer station in New York and sold a hauling business in 2021. Since then, he\u2019s built CurbWaste into a platform serving more than 150 haulers in 40 states. Its <a href=\"https:\/\/curbwaste.com\/curbpos\">CurbPOS system<\/a> for transfer stations tracks inbound and outbound materials with scale integration. It generates automated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usgbc.org\/leed\">LEED<\/a> diversion reports and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.recyclingcertification.org\/\">Recycling Certification Institute<\/a>-certified documentation; the per-load, per-material chain-of-custody data that <a href=\"https:\/\/earth911.com\/business-policy\/extended-producer-responsibility-in-2025-progress-with-more-to-come\/\">extended producer responsibility programs<\/a> need, as seven states now require producers to fund and document the recycling of their packaging.<\/div>\n<div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_366100\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-366100\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/baldheadedgirls.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/MikeMarmo-inarticle.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-366100 lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" data-src=\"http:\/\/baldheadedgirls.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/MikeMarmo-inarticle.jpg\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-366100\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mike Marmo, Founder &amp; CEO of CurbWaste, is our guest on <i>Sustainability In Your Ear<\/i>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div>Mike made a simple but important point: \u201cWaste is being created when it\u2019s being manufactured.\u201d The waste management industry reflects the economy and could become the base for a circular supply chain that keeps materials in use. Mike compares this to Amazon, which learned about buyer behavior and then built warehousing, freight, and delivery systems around that knowledge. The waste industry can do something similar. By tracking what is produced, where it goes, and where it ends up, haulers and new operators can work together on a shared digital system that gives full visibility of materials. Mike calls this the \u201cwaste meter,\u201d and he thinks an AI-powered circular economy could be in place within 10 years. <a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.accenture.com\/news\/2015\/the-circular-economy-could-unlock-4-5-trillion-of-economic-growth-finds-new-book-by-accenture\">Accenture research<\/a> estimates that the circular economy could add $4.5 trillion in economic output by 2030, a number supported by the <a href=\"https:\/\/climatepromise.undp.org\/news-and-stories\/transitioning-circular-economy-future-we-cannot-afford-delay\">United Nations Development Program<\/a>. Right now, investment is far below what is needed to reach that potential. CurbWaste is working to build the transparency needed to connect collection and vision, helping turn a fragmented industry into a circular supply chain. To learn more, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/curbwaste.com\">curbwaste.com<\/a>.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>If you found this episode helpful, please consider <a href=\"https:\/\/api.spreaker.com\/v2\/episodes\/70072417\/download.mp3\">sharing it with a friend<\/a>.<\/div>\n<ul class=\"[li_&amp;]:mb-0 [li_&amp;]:mt-1 [li_&amp;]:gap-1 [&amp;:not(:last-child)_ul]:pb-1 [&amp;:not(:last-child)_ol]:pb-1 list-disc flex flex-col gap-1 pl-8 mb-3\">\n<li class=\"whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\">Subscribe to <em>Sustainability In Your Ear<\/em> on <a class=\"underline underline underline-offset-2 decoration-1 decoration-current\/40 hover:decoration-current focus:decoration-current\" href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/earth911-com-sustainability-in-your-ear\/id1384301001?mt=2\">iTunes<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"whitespace-normal break-words pl-2\">Follow <em>Sustainability In Your Ear<\/em> on <a class=\"underline underline underline-offset-2 decoration-1 decoration-current\/40 hover:decoration-current focus:decoration-current\" href=\"https:\/\/www.spreaker.com\/user\/earth911\">Spreaker<\/a>, <a class=\"underline underline underline-offset-2 decoration-1 decoration-current\/40 hover:decoration-current focus:decoration-current\" href=\"https:\/\/www.iheart.com\/podcast\/966-Earth911com-Sustain-29715785\/\">iHeartRadio<\/a>, or <a class=\"underline underline underline-offset-2 decoration-1 decoration-current\/40 hover:decoration-current focus:decoration-current\" href=\"https:\/\/youtube.com\/@elkcreeknotes?si=OYncOJMSzZ857f4L\">YouTube<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Interview Transcript<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Mitch Ratcliffe\u00a0 0:00<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hello, good morning, good afternoon or good evening, wherever you are on this beautiful planet of ours. Welcome to Sustainability In Your Ear. This is the podcast conversation about accelerating the transition to a sustainable, carbon-neutral society, and I\u2019m your host, Mitch Ratcliffe. Thank you for joining the conversation.<\/p>\n<p>Today, we\u2019re going to take another dive into the circular economy, this time about how we manage our waste collection and processing systems. The U.S. waste management industry moves more than 290 million tons of municipal solid waste a year. It\u2019s a potential trillion-dollar market, yet much of it still runs on paper, tickets, clipboards, and spreadsheets. Roughly 10,000 independent haulers handle a significant share of American collection and materials transfer, and they work in a business where a single truck costs $300,000 and profitability depends on route efficiency. Yet most of these haulers lack access to the digital infrastructure that other logistics-centric industries adopted a decade ago.<\/p>\n<p>Now that society recognizes the immense value in waste\u2014that it\u2019s not just something to dispose of as quickly and quietly as possible, to manage for profitable reuse in a growing circular economy\u2014the waste management industry is in the midst of a vast upgrade.<\/p>\n<p>And our guest today is Mike Marmo, the CEO and founder of CurbWaste, an end-to-end operating system built for independent waste haulers. Mike is a fourth-generation waste industry professional. His great-grandfather started in the business, and Mike started his career working at a family transfer station in New York. Then he built his own collection and disposal hauling company called Curbside, and when COVID shutdowns wiped out three months of construction-dependent revenue, he pivoted to focus on the software platform his hauling company had built. He sold that hauling business in 2021 and has spent the years since building CurbWaste into a platform that now serves more than 150 haulers across 40 states, from five-truck family operations to 200-vehicle regional fleets.<\/p>\n<p>CurbWaste brings order management, real-time dispatch, route optimization, automated invoicing, driver apps, and e-commerce into a single cloud-based platform. Its <a href=\"https:\/\/curbwaste.com\/curbpos\">CurbPOS point-of-sale system<\/a> for transfer stations tracks inbound and outbound materials with scale integration, and uses weighted averages by material type to generate automated LEED diversion reports and Recycling Certification Institute certified documentation. In other words, it helps a hauler qualify for environmental incentives that gives contractors and developers defensible, third-party verifiable proof that their construction waste was actually diverted from a landfill. And that, too, creates another economic opportunity.<\/p>\n<p>The per-load, per-material chain-of-custody data is what the emerging extended producer responsibility programs that we\u2019ve discussed many times need, as seven states now require producers to fund and document the collection, sorting, and recycling of their packaging. So if you put this operating system under the circular economy, you start to track the value flow, and that means more value can be recognized and rewarded.<\/p>\n<p>In October, CurbWaste closed a $28 million Series B round led by Socium Ventures\u2014that\u2019s the venture capital arm of Cox Enterprises\u2014bringing its total funding to $50 million. The investment is fueling AI-powered business intelligence tools designed to give independent haulers the kind of data-driven decision making that larger competitors like Waste Management and Republic Services have built in their own proprietary systems.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ll talk with Mike about what it takes to digitize an industry that\u2019s resisted technology adoption for decades, how CurbPOS\u2019s materials tracking could extend from LEED compliance into EPR reporting and regional materials flow planning, and whether a network of independent haulers on a shared platform can become a connective tissue for an emerging circular economy supply chain. And finally, what is AI actually delivering for waste operations today compared to the hype we\u2019re hearing?<\/p>\n<p>You can learn more about CurbWaste at <a href=\"https:\/\/curbwaste.com\">curbwaste.com<\/a>\u2014CurbWaste is all one word, no space, no dash.<\/p>\n<p>So, can a software platform that modernizes independent hauling also help build the data infrastructure for the circular economy? Let\u2019s find out right after this quick commercial break.<\/p>\n<p><b>[COMMERCIAL BREAK]<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Welcome to the show, Mike. How you doing today?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mike Marmo\u00a0 <\/strong>4:42<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m doing well. How are you doing?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mitch Ratcliffe\u00a0 <\/strong>4:44<\/p>\n<p>Doing well. It\u2019s a beautiful day here in Southern Oregon, and I know in New York City you\u2019re getting through the snow.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mike Marmo\u00a0 <\/strong>4:51<\/p>\n<p>Yes, it\u2019s really cold.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mitch Ratcliffe\u00a0 <\/strong>4:53<\/p>\n<p>I want to start off with this question, and it goes back to the fact that your great-grandfather started this business, or started in this business. Walk us through the paper and digital processes that recycling operations have been using, and how CurbPOS changes their day-to-day work.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mike Marmo\u00a0 <\/strong>5:07<\/p>\n<p>Yeah. So my family had grown up in this, you know, been in this business. I had grown up in this business. Actually, my first job, I was a scale operator starting at a transfer station. And when I was working there, everything was pen to paper. You know, we used a traditional scale ticket. We would put it through this, you know, the EXP printer.<\/p>\n<p>And, you know, within that first year of really working there, I started to realize how difficult it was and how much manual work was happening. You know, a lot of the requests that we were getting at that facility\u2014it was a C&amp;D facility\u2014a lot of the requests we were getting were for LEED, or for something that was related to a regulatory compliance effort, and to get all that information was fairly difficult. So we, you know, at that point, I really understood kind of where the waste industry was relative to the technology around me and my regular day-to-day life, and when I started a waste company, and then ultimately ended up starting a software company, I really saw it at scale, working with a lot of companies around the country that are starting pen to paper or operating off kind of archaic systems.<\/p>\n<p>And so when we originally built CurbWaste and then the CurbPOS product, which is for the transfer stations and recycling centers, we really hyper-focused on automating tasks and making sure that everything was as digital as possible for aggregation of data. So I think we\u2019re starting to see adoption along the way, and I think the waste industry is progressing, but ultimately, I think a digital experience is necessary. And I think it\u2019s for the future of the industry and for the future of the way that we operate in our waste streams. I think it\u2019s critical.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mitch Ratcliffe\u00a0 <\/strong>6:45<\/p>\n<p>When you pivoted from moving trash to selling software, how did that change your view of the system that you\u2019d been working in?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mike Marmo\u00a0 <\/strong>6:52<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, so New York, obviously, is fairly unique. We were operating the five boroughs, and there are many limitations, regulatory compliance. It\u2019s very difficult to navigate logistically\u2014you know, so many people, and limited parking, limited space, very tight. So you know, when you\u2019re operating in that bubble, you don\u2019t have a lot of options on how you have to operate. You have to be really, really good and really, really pointed.<\/p>\n<p>But then once we moved into the software space, and we started to see, you know, around the country, how people operate, the term I like to use always is \u201clocal,\u201d because it really is. You know, we\u2019re all fundamentally doing the same thing. We\u2019re all picking up garbage. We\u2019re all bringing it to facilities. They\u2019re processing materials. But the way they do it, or the nuances around that workflow, are very different, depending on where you are.<\/p>\n<p>And the example I\u2019ll use is like, you know, you have New York City\u2014again, that\u2019s like a very tight space, limited space, lot of people. And then you\u2019ll operate with a company down in Alabama or Mississippi that has a big urban sprawl, and they have different types of issues, different types of problems. And so everybody\u2019s trying to do the best they can from a service perspective. But ultimately, it really is dependent on where you are regionally. And I think that\u2019s where dynamic software and the ability to be dynamic really provides a lot of value overall.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mitch Ratcliffe\u00a0 <\/strong>8:04<\/p>\n<p>The old approach to this business was you had a landfill and you had a certain number of years to fill it, and so you were managing filling a hole rather than extracting value from the waste stream. How have you seen that transition change the focus of the business that you\u2019re trying to support with software?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mike Marmo\u00a0 <\/strong>8:21<\/p>\n<p>So I think, I mean, maybe I can take a step back into the history a little bit. To your point, I think waste used to be volume-based. It was very much like, I charge a price per yard, I dump for price per yard. And there was a simplicity in that. But I think it also led to\u2014kind of, the way that pricing was done was, again, very volume, and it was very simple.<\/p>\n<p>When the industry moved into weight and it started to weigh materials\u2014and obviously within that, the kind of correlation of commodities being pulled out and the value in the global supply chain\u2014there was a shift in the industry where some of the waste haulers still were pricing or stuck in a volume-based framework, but the facilities were pricing off of tonnage.<\/p>\n<p>And there was an evolution that happened over time. So what you end up seeing is like, if you order a dumpster, for example, and a dumpster has a certain amount of price and allowable tonnage, and then you\u2019re pricing off a matrix format for additional tonnage\u2014the industry shifted. There was a shift in the way that the industry actually started to work.<\/p>\n<p>So now what ends up happening in that framework is, some landfills, you know, big facilities, certain markets have a lot of land and a lot of sprawl, and they have big holes with long lifespans. Whereas other markets don\u2019t have any landfills, or have many landfills closing because they\u2019re running out of space, and they\u2019re moving to intermodal, or they\u2019re moving to, again, like MRFs. There\u2019s been more focus on bringing materials back into the supply chain. So I think we\u2019re still seeing that shift happen. It\u2019s still moving in that direction.<\/p>\n<p>And I think, again, like I always say, waste is a utility that\u2019s not measurable, and I think that\u2019s the main problem. And in order to do this well, you need to have a unit of measurement, a single point of truth. And so that\u2019s why I think software comes into play. It\u2019s able to aggregate a bunch of data\u2014operational data, but also data that\u2019s related to the material and waste streams\u2014and be able to measure what\u2019s going on, and then be able to make better business decisions and better regulatory decisions on the long term.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mitch Ratcliffe\u00a0 <\/strong>10:23<\/p>\n<p>CurbPOS tracks inbound and outbound materials at these transfer stations. When a truck dumps a load, what\u2019s the data capture process, and how granular does it get in terms of the materials that you can classify and identify? And then what does that enable in terms of value extraction?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mike Marmo\u00a0 <\/strong>10:38<\/p>\n<p>It all depends. It really depends on the market. Some, it hits the floor and then it just gets, you know, taken out to the next place. Other markets will obviously run it across a belt, pull out commodities. So there\u2019s something measurable that\u2019s happening.<\/p>\n<p>I think, you know, the age of technology now, you can do things like material recognition\u2014AI being able to do material recognition and get components of that. Obviously, the certification bodies like RCI and LEED that are helping to kind of audit and make sure that there\u2019s an evaluation period of whatever they\u2019re saying they did, or whatever they\u2019re pulling out of the stream.<\/p>\n<p>But the inbound-outbound correlation is really what matters. Because when you\u2019re coming onto the scale and you\u2019re getting weighed and you\u2019re putting it on the floor, once it hits the belt, we can then take the outbounds and create that mapping of, okay, this material, amount of material came in that day, this load hit the floor, and then this is what was distributed out. And then we can show you what a recycling rate was. I still think there\u2019s more to be done there. I do think that cameras and AI can measure that when it hits the ground, but I think the industry is moving in the right direction overall.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mitch Ratcliffe\u00a0 <\/strong>11:52<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s step back a little bit from the industry to, let\u2019s say, a five-truck family operation that\u2019s never used anything except maybe QuickBooks to do some invoicing. What is the actual on-ramp to CurbPOS look like for them? How does it change their business?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mike Marmo\u00a0 <\/strong>12:09<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, so I think if you\u2019re a hauler, you\u2019re going to be on the CurbWaste product. If you\u2019re transitioning to be on the CurbPOS product\u2014but really, around implementation, I think that\u2019s actually a natural point where people start thinking about software as a hauler. You know, you really want to be cost-efficient in the early days, and so sometimes software might be out of the price range. But I think as you start to grow, and you\u2019re seeing that incremental growth, what most haulers are looking for at that point is efficiency and visibility.<\/p>\n<p>So what software is able to do\u2014operationally, it\u2019s allowing you the ability to be efficient and to be able to see what\u2019s working and what isn\u2019t, and then it\u2019s also giving you insights into what\u2019s measurable, so that you can keep investing in the things that are working. That\u2019s hard in the waste business overall, but it\u2019s a good way to start.<\/p>\n<p>When you go through change management, change is hard all the time. Like, if you have a process that\u2019s working, and it\u2019s, you know, the kind of old adage, \u201cIf it ain\u2019t broke, don\u2019t fix it.\u201d You hit a certain point where you have to make a decision about what you want\u2014what is the motivating factor of the business? So are you trying to grow, or are you just trying to maintain where you are? Most people that are entering business and entrepreneurship are trying to grow. So then it becomes about scale. It becomes about, I need to maximize and focus on the most important thing, and I can\u2019t do everything. And eliminating manual tasks allows you to scale more efficiently.<\/p>\n<p>So you go through the buying process and you find the right fit for the software that you need in the moment of which you need it. But you also need to consider what you can scale into as you grow. And then you go through a process of entering orders, getting training, training the drivers, training the staff, making sure everybody understands how the system works. But then there\u2019s a transition period. We stick with them, we make sure that everything is going the way that we hoped it would go, what the project plan said, and you\u2019re supporting them along the way. But at a certain point, the system is running for you, and then they\u2019re off to the races and they continue to scale.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mitch Ratcliffe\u00a0 <\/strong>13:53<\/p>\n<p>One of the major changes in the industry that\u2019s driving this transition is the introduction of extended producer responsibility laws, which require, for instance, you\u2019re measuring material type, the weight, its recyclability, and whether it\u2019s recycled, and getting verification of that diversion from landfill. Was that in your head when you started thinking about developing CurbWaste, or is this an opportunity that\u2019s just sort of emerged conveniently at the same time?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mike Marmo\u00a0 <\/strong>14:20<\/p>\n<p>100%. When we got into this, the grander vision was the interconnectivity of the supply chain from a data perspective. So the way I kind of like to normalize it is, you have a generator, you have a collector\u2014a hauler\u2014you have a disposal site, and then ultimately end use, right? But it\u2019s end of life. So does it go back into the supply chain through the circular economy? Does it end up in the hole? Whatever that is. There\u2019s usually that period of time where the life cycle has ended.<\/p>\n<p>So the way we thought about it was, well, where can we focus energy from a software perspective? I view the haulers and the transfer stations and the disposal centers as the core of the data set. So we really want to be hyper-focused on aggregating data and providing value in those areas. But ultimately, the idea was to interconnect the generation piece to the rest of it. So when we started, we really stayed focused on that part\u2014the collector and the disposal. But now we\u2019re starting to migrate into the generator piece, to really connect the data sets. And to your point, show where material is being generated, how it\u2019s being generated, where it\u2019s going, and ultimately where it ends up. That\u2019s the measurement of the utility. That\u2019s the waste meter. And that\u2019s what we\u2019re trying to achieve.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mitch Ratcliffe\u00a0 <\/strong>15:31<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve had a number of sorting and hauling folks on the show, as well as a lot of other thinkers on this topic of the circular economy. So building on this reality in which you\u2019ve got verification that materials have been moved to a particular place and at a particular pace, do you imagine it\u2019s possible to actually plan regional material flows, to really turn the circular economy on in its full flower?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mike Marmo\u00a0 <\/strong>15:55<\/p>\n<p>Yes, I do. It\u2019s a lofty goal. A lot has to happen. But I do believe that that\u2019s possible. And the analogy I like to use is something like Amazon. Amazon was able to understand from a retail component, like, what buyer behavior was. They were able to leverage data around buyer behavior, and then they were able to integrate themselves into the supply chain\u2014the freight forwarding, the warehousing, the ultimately last-mile delivery.<\/p>\n<p>And they do it so well. The reason why you\u2019re able to get something in the same day is because they were able to connect all those pieces and understand the output. I believe that the waste industry can achieve that. And so that was a core part of what we are trying to do. You have to walk before you run. You can\u2019t do everything all at once. And again, this is a business, right? Like, if I sign up a hauler and I can\u2019t run their business, then the workflows\u2014you have to build a foundation before you build the house. But I think the long-term vision is the ability to do exactly what you just said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mitch Ratcliffe\u00a0 <\/strong>17:03<\/p>\n<p>Millions of people come to <a href=\"https:\/\/earth911.com\">Earth911<\/a>\u2019s database to find out what to do with specific materials, and one of the things they\u2019re interested in is getting the right material to the right place, so that it is actually recycled. And what you just described in the context of Amazon, for instance\u2014should we not be thinking about putting everything in a single bin? But could we, in an economically viable way, actually have specialized collection that would produce a cleaner load?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mike Marmo\u00a0 <\/strong>17:33<\/p>\n<p>Yeah. I mean, one of the things that I saw as a waste hauler that I struggled with was, we\u2019re making decisions\u2014whether regulatory or whether it\u2019s, you know, just in general\u2014like, if you\u2019re trying to be a good actor and try to do the right things, but it\u2019s not rooted in much data. And so what I tried to say was, well, if we can\u2019t measure it, then how do you action it?<\/p>\n<p>And I think the first step, the first thing that everybody should be paying attention to is, how do we measure this? Like, what are we actually looking at? What is the scope of the effort? I don\u2019t think anybody could tell you that, but I think there are ways to do it. And I think, as you have\u2014we like to refer to ourselves as a system of action. You have to have a single point of truth. And when you have a single point of truth, you can then make action against it. So data is the most important thing right now. Data aggregation is the most important thing.<\/p>\n<p>To your point, you did say something that\u2019s really important that I think gets missed as well, which is, it has to be economically viable. There has to be ROI associated. And so a lot of times, what ends up happening is you get a compliance or regulatory effort that doesn\u2019t really take into account the business criteria, and then people are resistant to it, because the business still has to run\u2014it\u2019s a for-profit entity. We want to take the opposite approach. We want to provide value and find ROI in the haulers\u2019 work. Work alongside them, work alongside the transfer stations, work alongside the landfills. Understand how they\u2019re thinking about their business, and really get down into the KPIs of their ROI, and then funnel that back up to the generators and say, here\u2019s how they make money, here\u2019s what\u2019s valuable to them. How can we work together to make that make sense?<\/p>\n<p>I think there\u2019s a way to do that, and it\u2019s just about visibility. It\u2019s transparency, it\u2019s visibility, it\u2019s getting people on the same page. And working together is really what we need to do.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mitch Ratcliffe\u00a0 <\/strong>19:05<\/p>\n<p>So here\u2019s a hypothetical. Let\u2019s say you look to the one organization in the world right now that has the greatest visibility into what\u2019s flowing into homes, and that\u2019s Amazon, like we were just talking about. Could you partner with Amazon to say, we know you\u2019re delivering this much cardboard, this much plastic waste, and so forth into this region, and then plan a hauling solution in response to that?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mike Marmo\u00a0 <\/strong>19:29<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s right. That\u2019s the end goal. That\u2019s probably the last step, the last piece of the puzzle. But that\u2019s exactly what you want to do. You know, waste is being created when it\u2019s being manufactured, right? Like, ultimately, when it starts, at that point is when we know what the waste stream is going to look like. But again, if you have nowhere for it to funnel in, and you have nowhere to measure it, it\u2019s disjointed. You have to have an integratable solution to be able to even do that. So yes, that is the goal. But ultimately, we have to start at the foundational level.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mitch Ratcliffe\u00a0 <\/strong>19:58<\/p>\n<p>Yeah. We\u2019re moving to a more planful economy, and there\u2019s a lot to unpack in that idea. Let\u2019s take a quick commercial break. We\u2019re gonna come back to this fascinating conversation. Folks, stay tuned.<\/p>\n<p><b>[COMMERCIAL BREAK]<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Welcome back to Sustainability In Your Ear. Let\u2019s return to my discussion with CurbWaste CEO Mike Marmo. He\u2019s a fourth-generation waste industry veteran whose AI-augmented CurbPOS system automates recycling operations. So, Mike, until recently, the waste management industry has been resistant to digitization. Let\u2019s just put it that way. And there\u2019s a massive change ahead. What do you see in terms of a new generation of leadership and the way they think emerging as this industry grows?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mike Marmo\u00a0 <\/strong>20:43<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, I think tech adoption in general runs through cycles, right? You have your early adopters, people that see the value. Usually, that\u2019s someone that understands that they have to differentiate. That\u2019s helping at the market. I was at that at one point\u2014when you\u2019re competing with 200 haulers in New York, you have to figure out a way, right? So tech, for me, was the way that I differentiated myself.<\/p>\n<p>So you start with those, and what you\u2019re really doing is you\u2019re proving the ROI, you\u2019re proving the case. You\u2019re building case studies around, okay, this is providing value in this particular area, but you\u2019re also identifying the meaningful pain points of what they\u2019re experiencing. I think a lot of times, if you talk to a waste hauler, maybe generally they\u2019ll say, like, things are working. But if you really get down into it, pull back the layers, there\u2019s always a pain point. There\u2019s always something they\u2019re trying to solve for.<\/p>\n<p>But when you see margin shrinking, you have to either try to drive net new revenue, or you have to be able to save in a certain area. So then what ends up happening naturally is that people start paying attention and they say, okay, this person is growing. They\u2019re growing 30% year over year. What\u2019s driving that growth? And eventually you get adoption. In that way, you get that mass adoption. But some people don\u2019t want to take the risk. They want the other people to take it first and have that proof point. But then it kind of accelerates, and that\u2019s when you start to get into that hyper-growth, hyper-adoption phase.<\/p>\n<p>I think we are very, very close to that. I think what\u2019s happening is people are paying attention to what\u2019s going on. From a tech perspective, it is moving at hyper speed at this point, and so the world is evolving at such an incredibly fast rate that anybody that doesn\u2019t adopt will ultimately fall behind at some point. So I think the waste industry historically has been a little behind, but I don\u2019t anticipate that being the case for the long term.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mitch Ratcliffe\u00a0 <\/strong>22:23<\/p>\n<p>When you raised your Series B, you said that you wanted patient capital that understands that this industry won\u2019t transform overnight. And in the context of what you just said about everything changing at hyper speed, why patient? And how does that transformation happen in practice? And what do you see as the timeline?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mike Marmo\u00a0 <\/strong>22:41<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s pretty simple. I think I alluded to this earlier. You have to build the foundation before you build the house. You can\u2019t build the roof first, right? You have to build the foundation. And a lot of waste haulers\u2014you have a varying degree of waste haulers around the country that are like two-to-three-truck operations all the way up to 30,000-truck fleets, right? So you have to meet them where they are. If you cannot run the business for them in a meaningful and impactful way, then you\u2019ve already failed. There\u2019s nothing that you can do that will really help them unless you pick a niche part of their business. And we have a lofty goal of being an operational management system. We want to be able to run the entire business on the platform.<\/p>\n<p>So you have to start there. And when I say patient capital, there\u2019s a lot of effort that goes into building those workflows, not just surface level, but adding depth, adding nuance and depth, to make sure the system is dynamic but rigid. You don\u2019t want data to be wrong, and you don\u2019t want it to get convoluted, but you want it to be dynamic enough to meet the need in the market. So that takes time. You have to learn. You have to listen. You have to pay attention to what\u2019s going on. You have to be a really, really good partner to the waste hauler. They have to trust you and believe in you.<\/p>\n<p>So that part of it is like the first step into the rest. But in conjunction with that, you have to be forward looking. You have to be looking at the things that they\u2019re not paying attention to, the things that they don\u2019t know, because they\u2019re in the weeds dealing with the day-to-day. They\u2019re dealing with servicing their customers, they\u2019re dealing with the community, they\u2019re dealing with building the business that they\u2019re focused on. So it\u2019s our job as a tech partner to be able to say, this is where the industry is moving, here\u2019s what this is going to lead to, here\u2019s the vision, and hopefully get people to sign up to that and believe in that.<\/p>\n<p>So when we brought in a partner, we articulated that. I think a lot of times, when you bring on venture capital or any funding, they\u2019re expecting this major hyper growth. But if you want to achieve what we\u2019ve been speaking about thus far, you need to get things right, and you need to make sure that you\u2019re building the foundation correctly.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mitch Ratcliffe\u00a0 <\/strong>24:40<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019re leaning into AI. Does that mean that you\u2019re training models to become an expert in managing waste or hauler processes? Where\u2019s the focus of your training?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mike Marmo\u00a0 <\/strong>24:51<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s really in a couple different areas. I think what we really preach out there in the market is, AI for the sake of AI means nothing. Like, AI is cool. It\u2019s great. It can provide you really meaningful value in certain areas of your life. And I think it\u2019s going to be transformative, without a doubt. But in our industry, waste haulers don\u2019t really care about necessarily putting something in because it\u2019s flashy and nice and cool. They want it to provide value.<\/p>\n<p>And so when we think about AI, we think about manual tasks. We think about repeatable tasks. We think about infinite-scale areas of their business that we\u2019re solving an immediate pain point, or that they can scale with for the remainder of time, because that thing is going to happen all the time. So an example of that would be, how are we ingesting orders from multiple channels to create efficiencies? How are we setting up call centers? How are we transcribing phone calls for customer support and customer success?<\/p>\n<p>And then I think what you\u2019re referring to on the learning side is the gluing of traditional machine learning and algorithmic types of optimizations\u2014for example, like route optimization\u2014gluing it to historical behavior and being able to say, here\u2019s the nuances, here\u2019s when the person never puts their garbage out on time, here\u2019s where this street is closed, but it doesn\u2019t show you that in the map. Just certain things that dispatchers know, that tribal knowledge, that they understand their market, that an algorithm is not going to understand. And that\u2019s where AI can layer in and learn behavior and then make better recommendations.<\/p>\n<p>So it\u2019s not an overnight thing. You have to have the data. It\u2019s only as good as the data. So we\u2019re really focused on the infrastructure architecture, making sure that we\u2019re aggregating that data appropriately, and then learning on that data in order to make sure that we\u2019re giving them the best option for success, or the best decision-making process, or the most optimal insight that we can provide.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mitch Ratcliffe\u00a0 <\/strong>26:42<\/p>\n<p>So what\u2019s an example of an AI-driven recommendation that one of your haulers has used to make a decision that they wouldn\u2019t have otherwise?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mike Marmo\u00a0 <\/strong>26:50<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, I think, like, operationally, or just anything that we can do that\u2019s kind of AI-powered\u2014<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mitch Ratcliffe\u00a0 <\/strong>26:56<\/p>\n<p>One that was a material difference for the hauler. What do you point to as an example when you\u2019re talking to other haulers?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mike Marmo\u00a0 <\/strong>27:04<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, let\u2019s\u2014I\u2019ll probably say two. I think first, let\u2019s just talk about\u2014we\u2019ve talked about change management. I think right now, internally, we\u2019re really hyper-focused on making sure that we can create a really nice change management experience of adopting software. So we do a ton around AI data migrations, so that when we\u2019re taking data out of a system, we\u2019re able to map it in a quick and easy way that they can understand it, but also do structured cleanups of that data to make sure that they\u2019re getting what they want into the new system. It seems like a small thing, but it\u2019s a very challenging thing when you\u2019re going through a long change management process. So that\u2019s an immediate impact to the hauler, that they feel more comfortable in that change.<\/p>\n<p>The second thing is, anything agentic that we build is going to provide value to the pain point that they\u2019re trying to solve for. So whether that\u2019s migrating data from one place into another\u2014being able to take data out of a CRM or being able to put it into an ERP\u2014meaningful value. You\u2019ve just eliminated a manual task that they would have to do over and over and over again. That\u2019s repetitive, that\u2019s manual, and it applies. So it\u2019s a really good method in providing ROI, because you can just say, that work is never going to be done again. That agent will work in that and do that for you with conviction.<\/p>\n<p>But I think longer term, things like we talked about\u2014service verification, material recognition, route optimization\u2014those are efforts that we have to make meaningful investments in, that\u2019ll be coming down the pike.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mitch Ratcliffe\u00a0 <\/strong>28:29<\/p>\n<p>You know, as I listen to your description of this, and I think about the U.S. recycling system, which is, as you\u2019ve pointed out, filled with small, private recyclers and haulers looking for ways to plug into, for instance, the growing extended producer responsibility infrastructure that\u2019s emerging around us\u2014I\u2019m reminded of eBay. Is CurbWaste aiming to become a marketplace layer where those independent operators can begin to identify and plug into broader materials flows?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mike Marmo\u00a0 <\/strong>29:00<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s on our radar. Like I said, I think a marketplace, to me, again, is really indicative of the behavior and the learning and understanding what\u2019s going on. So right now, core focus is just visibility. I think we have to create the transparency layer first before anything else.<\/p>\n<p>But yes, I would say, a marketplace, the ability to understand who\u2019s best\u2014like, RCI is a great example. I mean, RCI, when you\u2019re partnering with LEED and you\u2019re trying to find RCI facilities to establish those LEED points, that\u2019s an area where we can help and say, this facility is in this area. Partner. We\u2019re driving revenue for our customer base. We\u2019re saying this RCI facility is on our platform. We can measure it. We can automate that process. We can get that LEED report to the right person in the right moment and give that level of visibility through dashboards or anything that we\u2019re building at a customer-facing level.<\/p>\n<p>Again, that\u2019s work that doesn\u2019t have to be done manually. That\u2019s something that can happen in automation. That\u2019s probably the first natural step. And we are doing some meaningful work with RCI and LEED. But long term, I think, yes, to your point, we want to get to a visibility layer, a waste meter layer, for anybody that wants it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mitch Ratcliffe\u00a0 <\/strong>30:10<\/p>\n<p>That transparency that you\u2019re describing is going to be particularly important to producer responsibility organizations, the entities that are standing up to fulfill EPR requirements. Are you talking with them about how you can facilitate the management of their specific materials?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mike Marmo\u00a0 <\/strong>30:28<\/p>\n<p>Yes, we are very much in discovery and in conversation with people that are obviously interested and incentivized to want to work with us and try to achieve this vision. So we do talk to people, and we do try to understand, what visibility do they want? What would they love to see? What is a utopian point of view? I mean, product is always something that we\u2019re always forward looking on, right? What\u2019s being built today is actionable. It\u2019s already been validated. Now it\u2019s about, what are we going to build in the future? We\u2019re probably talking a few years down the road. I think we still have a lot to do on the workflow side. But yes, we are always keeping these teams informed and making sure that they\u2019re aligned with where we\u2019re going.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mitch Ratcliffe\u00a0 <\/strong>31:06<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019ve raised $50 million to date. Do you see a substantial amount of capital sitting out there waiting for this efflorescence of data visibility to take hold, so that they can begin to mine the material value in the economy?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mike Marmo\u00a0 <\/strong>31:21<\/p>\n<p>Yes. I mean, our Series B was led by the venture arm of Cox Enterprises, and it was a very big part of their thesis. They saw the vision. They aligned with it. We were able to move quickly. But it really was rooted in the fact that they\u2019ve been seeking this type of solution internally. They\u2019ve been trying to figure out how to get more visibility into their own efforts as it relates to sustainability. So yes, I think we will continue to build. We have to fund the business in order to build the products and achieve the dream that we want to. We do believe that this can be a very big business, but ultimately, we are still aligning on that mission statement and that vision of giving the true visibility and measurement of the waste industry.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mitch Ratcliffe\u00a0 <\/strong>32:00<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve been looking kind of over the horizon without a clear timeframe. But let me ask you this: in 10 years, will we have an AI-enabled circular economy running, or will it still be in the process of being constructed?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mike Marmo\u00a0 <\/strong>32:12<\/p>\n<p>I think it will be there. Yeah, in 10 years, I think it will be there. I think, you know what I know internally of where we are\u2014we are not that far off. We have spent the last four years on the workflows. We are starting to see the data benefit of that. I think in the next 10 years we will 100% have it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mitch Ratcliffe\u00a0 <\/strong>32:33<\/p>\n<p>So how does that change the economy of the United States?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mike Marmo\u00a0 <\/strong>32:37<\/p>\n<p>You know, that\u2019s the part that I\u2019m not 100% sure. I\u2019ve been operating under the mission statement of this dream and this vision. I do think that it\u2019s going to ultimately make us rethink how we think about waste.<\/p>\n<p>You know, you have electricity, right? You can measure it. You can go onto your portal and see how much you\u2019re consuming. You can measure water. You can measure all the things that you\u2019re using on a day-to-day basis. The waste industry is a part, a core part, of our infrastructure. It\u2019s a core part of our society. You can even look historically and say, when waste stops getting picked up, it can crumble a society. It can crumble a city. I mean, New York City went through that in the strike, and recently in Boston they went through it.<\/p>\n<p>So there\u2019s meaningful implications to the societal impact that waste has. And sometimes I think that gets taken for granted. And I think what we really want to focus on is showing that\u2014getting all the waste haulers in our community, which I really think we\u2019re building, is a really great community of waste haulers that are forward thinking, that want to be a part of that mission, and try to show people how critical this industry is, and also all the things and all the information and insights that can come out of it.<\/p>\n<p>So yeah, it\u2019s very mission-driven. It\u2019s a very personal journey. It\u2019s a very mission-driven journey. But ultimately, I think we have to break it down into its parts, phase out what the goals are, and then get to a point where we can show people how important it actually is.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mitch Ratcliffe\u00a0 <\/strong>34:05<\/p>\n<p>This is a huge vision. How can our listeners keep track of your part of the story?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mike Marmo\u00a0 <\/strong>34:10<\/p>\n<p>Well, I mean, obviously we post whatever we have to post on our website, so that\u2019s a good place\u2014at <a href=\"https:\/\/curbwaste.com\">curbwaste.com<\/a>\u2014but also, anybody can reach out to us. I mean, we are very much trying to be an advocate of the industry, and we\u2019re very much trying to be people that can be thought leaders and really speak about what we\u2019re trying to achieve here. We\u2019re very transparent, we\u2019re very honest, we\u2019re very true to who we are. So we love interacting with people in the space. We have people come to our office often. We have people talk to our team often. So for me, it\u2019s reach out. Reach out on LinkedIn, reach out on the website. You can reach out by any means necessary.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mitch Ratcliffe\u00a0 <\/strong>34:48<\/p>\n<p>Mike, thanks very much. It\u2019s been a really interesting conversation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mike Marmo\u00a0 <\/strong>34:52<\/p>\n<p>Thank you. I really appreciate you having me.<\/p>\n<p><b>[COMMERCIAL BREAK]<\/b><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mitch Ratcliffe\u00a0 <\/strong>35:08<\/p>\n<p>Welcome back to Sustainability In Your Ear. You\u2019ve been listening to my conversation with Mike Marmo. He\u2019s CEO and founder of CurbWaste, and a fourth-generation waste industry professional who\u2019s building the CurbPOS system, an end-to-end operating system for independent waste haulers. You can learn more about the company and its work at <a href=\"https:\/\/curbwaste.com\">curbwaste.com<\/a>\u2014CurbWaste is all one word, no space, no dash.<\/p>\n<p>Mike said something during the conversation that I encourage you to sit with: waste is being created when it is being manufactured. Now, that\u2019s a deceptively simple observation, and it reframes everything with regard to how we think about the leftovers of the take-make-waste economy. The moment a product rolls off the line, its waste stream is determined\u2014its packaging, what you need to do with it, the end-of-use disposition of the product itself, and the materials that will need to be collected, sorted, and either returned to the supply chain or, unfortunately, sometimes buried in a hole. If you can accept that premise, then the waste management industry isn\u2019t simply a downstream result of the current economy. It\u2019s a mirror that we need to look into to see the potential value to be recovered next week, next month, next year, or decades from now, when materials can no longer serve their current purpose.<\/p>\n<p>Mike also pointed to what happens when waste stops moving. In 1968, New York\u2019s sanitation workers walked off the job for nine days\u2014just nine days\u2014and 100,000 tons of garbage piled up chest-high on sidewalks. Rats swarmed into the city\u2019s best neighborhoods, and New York declared its first public health emergency since the 1931 polio epidemic. And just last summer, when Teamsters struck against Republic Services in the greater Boston area, trash went uncollected for more than two months across 14 communities. Dumpsters overflowed behind restaurants. The rodent population exploded, and schools faced the start of their school year buried by rotting waste. As Mike put it, when waste stops getting picked up, a society can crumble.<\/p>\n<p>And that fragility reveals something profound about society\u2019s relationship with the materials from which it is constructed. We\u2019ve built a civilization on the assumption that waste must disappear\u2014that it\u2019s someone else\u2019s problem, and that it is best put out of sight and kept out of mind. We\u2019ve treated waste as dirty, shameful, and beneath notice. That cultural contempt has real economic consequences, because it means we\u2019ve systematically underinvested in the infrastructure that manages the material afterlife of everything that we produce and consume.<\/p>\n<p>Now just imagine what happens when waste is no longer something to dispose of, but something that it\u2019s important to recover. When the 290 million tons of municipal solid waste moving through U.S. systems each year is finally understood not as a cost center, but as part of the supply chain\u2014a feedstock stream worth tracking, optimizing, and monetizing with the same sophistication we bring to any other logistics challenge. That\u2019s when the world CurbWaste wants to enable and its staggering economics will come into being.<\/p>\n<p>Accenture research projected that the circular economy could generate $4.5 trillion in additional economic output by 2030 and as much as $25 trillion by 2050. The United Nations Development Program has endorsed that same $4.5 trillion figure, noting that the transition would simultaneously cut emissions, create stable jobs, and open new green markets all over the world. Market analysts are converging on figures that describe an enormous circular economy. King\u2019s Research projects it will reach nearly $2.9 trillion by 2031, while a more conservative estimate from Next Move Strategy Consulting pinpoints $1.3 trillion in projected value by 2030\u2014so that even the lowest projections represent a doubling or tripling of the current waste market\u2019s value in just five years.<\/p>\n<p>The point is that we\u2019re dramatically underinvesting relative to the opportunity. CurbWaste\u2019s CurbPOS is just getting started on the path to connecting waste generators to local haulers, closing the loop that Mike described, from the point a product is manufactured to the end of its life and, ideally, back into the supply chain.<\/p>\n<p>Mike\u2019s Amazon analogy is the right way to frame this. Amazon took the time to understand buyer behavior first, when they were just selling books, and then they connected warehousing, freight forwarding, and last-mile logistics based on the knowledge of the consumer\u2019s needs. The waste industry can follow the same logic: identify what\u2019s being generated, where it flows, and where it ends up, ready for collection. Then the challenge is plugging the myriad gaps in our collection infrastructure by connecting independent operators\u2014new startups\u2014to materials that they can monetize, using a shared digital infrastructure. Right there you can see the necessary transparency layer, the marketplace layer, that turns a fragmented collection system into the connective tissue for a circular supply chain.<\/p>\n<p>And that\u2019s the signal that can transform waste into value, and that will drive new revenue for state and local collection and processing companies under extended producer responsibility programs, and ultimately lead to planned regional materials flows that citizens don\u2019t pay for, that companies exploit because it\u2019s profitable.<\/p>\n<p>So when waste stops being considered the dirty result of our consumption and starts being recognized as valuable\u2014when society looks at what it throws away with the same interest it brings to what it buys\u2014we will have a fundamentally different relationship with the material world. One that recognizes that the people who move and manage our waste are operating a utility as essential as electricity or water. And that\u2019s the story that will help unfold and explore here on Sustainability In Your Ear.<\/p>\n<p>So stay tuned. And folks, would you take a moment to check out our archive of more than 540 episodes of Sustainability In Your Ear? We\u2019re in our sixth season, and I guarantee you there\u2019s an interview that you\u2019ll want to share with one of your friends. Writing a review on your favorite podcast platform will help your neighbors find us. Folks, you\u2019re the amplifiers that can spread more ideas to create less waste. So please tell your friends, your family, and co-workers. They can find Sustainability In Your Ear on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeartRadio, Audible, or whatever purveyor of podcast goodness they prefer.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for your support. I\u2019m Mitch Ratcliffe. This is Sustainability In Your Ear, and we will be back with another innovator interview soon. In the meantime, folks, take care of yourself, take care of one another, and let\u2019s all take care of this beautiful planet of ours. Have a green day.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/earth911.com\/podcast\/sustainability-in-your-ear-curbwastes-mike-marmo-is-building-the-waste-logistics-layer-of-the-circular-economy\/\">Sustainability In Your Ear: CurbWaste\u2019s Mike Marmo Is Building the Waste Logistics Layer of the Circular Economy<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/earth911.com\">Earth911<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. waste management industry moves more than 290 million tons of municipal solid waste each year. This is a potential trillion-dollar market, but much of the work still relies on paper tickets, clipboards, and spreadsheets. 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