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WasteGuard Innovations

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We’re revolutionizing the construction industry with a cutting-edge material tracking and efficiency app. Our platform leverages real-time monitoring, intelligent cutlist optimization, and predictive analytics to tackle the industry’s 30% waste problem

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WasteGuard Innovations @wasteguard.bsky.social · Jul 26

We have lost our founder and CEO, Marcial Carrillo.

It saddens our heart to loose you Marcial, the company's not going to be the same without you.

But I'll still try my best to create the vision you've instilled in me and our company.

God Bless.

- Jesse Griffin

WasteGuard Innovations @wasteguard.bsky.social · 1d

Contech article featuring the knowledge-transfer gap in the industry and presenting a possible solution for it : CrewMind.

Check it out here:

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Closing the Knowledge Transfer Gap in Construction: Why CrewMind Matters Now

A look at a niche that is far underserved in construction tech: knowledge transfer and introducing a platform capable of streamlining the process.

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WasteGuard Innovations @wasteguard.bsky.social · 23d

EPA data has been inaccurate for as long as they've been around, particularly in their published C&D waste statistics which are based on Weight instead of Value, masking the true impact of C&D waste. Here's more on that with proof and citations:

wasteguardinnovations.com/whitepaper

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Mike Eliason @holz-bau.bsky.social · Jul 29

yes: www.energy.gov/sites/defaul...

www.energy.gov

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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · Jul 30

Turn those into formal comments to the EPA.

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Charles Scott @chas0853.bsky.social · Jul 29

No surprise at all. Just a read of the Executive Summary shows it to be nothing more than a re-hash of old denier talking points.

"U.S. policy actions are expected to have undetectably small direct impacts on the global climate and any effects will emerge only with long delays."

Simply untrue.

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WasteGuard Innovations @wasteguard.bsky.social · 23d

crewmind.org

WasteGuard Innovations @wasteguard.bsky.social · 23d

crewmind.org

WasteGuard Innovations @wasteguard.bsky.social · 23d

Filling a gap in the construction industry: KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER

Here is a platform that centralizes knowledge transfer from experienced workers to novices and facilitates the process in a single platform:

crewmind.org

Thoughts anyone?

CrewMind - Construction Knowledge Transfer UX

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WasteGuard Innovations @wasteguard.bsky.social · Sep 21

The "Construction Physics" newsletter this week had a very real truth about the industry that I think is important for everyone to realize.

The software we are building here at Wasteguard Innovations will help to mitigate this aspect of construction and pave the way for change in the industry.

WasteGuard Innovations @wasteguard.bsky.social · Sep 20

There is in fact a whole bunch of problems with that summary. Starting from a foundational fallacy. See here for more details :

wasteguardinnovations.com/whitepaper

The EPA's figures are wrong...They base all their numbers on WEIGHT, not VALUE.

Laravel

Software to reduce the 30% waste that comes from construction projects.

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WasteGuard Innovations @wasteguard.bsky.social · Sep 17

SUSTAINABILITY FROM SPACE

Interesting take on how looking at the earth from a higher viewpoint (from space, specifically) brings into context the bigger picture of what's really important, and how change is needed.

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WasteGuard Innovations @wasteguard.bsky.social · Jul 29

Would love some feedback from you : wasteguardinnovations.com

Laravel

Software to reduce the 30% waste that comes from construction projects.

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Brian Kahn @blkahn.bsky.social · Jul 29

This Energy Department report is cited nearly two dozen times in the EPA's rollback of the endangerment finding and some of the claims are, well, let's look at a few of them

Andrew Dessler @andrewdessler.com · Jul 29

I can't imagine there will be any problems with this summary of climate science

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WasteGuard Innovations @wasteguard.bsky.social · Jul 29

I have something you would be interested in.

Check this out when you have a second:

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WasteGuard Innovations @wasteguard.bsky.social · Jul 29

New Blog Post:

EPA Waste-Data Inaccuracies: Why WasteGuard Innovations Matters More Than Ever

wasteguardinnovations.com/blog#epa-was...

Laravel

Software to reduce the 30% waste that comes from construction projects.

wasteguardinnovations.com

WasteGuard Innovations @wasteguard.bsky.social · Jul 26

WasteGuard Innovations @wasteguard.bsky.social · Jul 16

Re-evaluating Construction Waste : A Value-Based Approach to Economic and Environmental Impact By: Marcial Carrillo & Jesse Griffin
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Re-evaluating Construction Waste : A Value-Based Approach to Economic and Environmental Impact By: Marcial Carrillo & Jesse Griffin

I. Executive Summary

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WasteGuard Innovations @wasteguard.bsky.social · Jul 5

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Wasteguard Innovations | marcial carrillo | Substack

Substack on practices of sustainability, circular economy and how Wasteguard Innovations has created a solution to help the (much too large) amount of C&D waste generated by the US every month (~$300 ...

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WasteGuard Innovations @wasteguard.bsky.social · Jul 5

First SUBSTACK post!

The Wasteguard Innovations whitepaper, titled "Re-evaluating Construction Waste: A Value-Based Approach to Economic and Environmental Impact," challenges the longstanding method the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) uses to assess construction and demolition (C&D) waste—namely, weight-based metrics. It argues that this method creates a critical distortion in understanding the true impact of waste, since heavy, low-value materials like concrete dominate by mass, while lighter, high-value materials like copper, steel, and hardwoods are largely overlooked despite their outsized financial and environmental significance.

The whitepaper proposes a value-based waste assessment model, which prioritizes the intrinsic economic and environmental worth of materials over their sheer volume. This paradigm shift reveals that even though materials like concrete make up the bulk of landfill tonnage, the real loss lies in the disposal of high-value resources that are often more difficult to recycle and carry a much larger carbon footprint per unit weight.

Using comparative cost and density data, the paper quantifies how weight-based systems undervalue materials like engineered lumber and scrap metals. It highlights the environmental damage of discarding scarce, carbon-intensive resources—pointing to embodied energy, emissions, and resource depletion.

Strategically, the paper recommends policy shifts, such as updating EPA metrics to include value-based tracking, incentivizing recovery of high-value materials, and supporting deconstruction practices over demolition. It also encourages industry adoption of better tracking and accountability technologies.

In essence, the whitepaper redefines C&D waste from a tonnage problem to a resource mismanagement crisis, advocating for smarter metrics that align with circular economy principles and offer more accurate data for climate, economic, and policy decisions.

WasteGuard Innovations @wasteguard.bsky.social · Jun 30

We published a research paper on this subject.

Check out the implicationis that estimating C&D waste has when calculated by VALUE instead of WEIGHT:

wasteguardinnovations.com/blog

WasteGuard Innovations @wasteguard.bsky.social · Jun 30

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WasteGuard Innovations @wasteguard.bsky.social · Jun 26

I would be careful about citing C&D waste estimates from the EPA. The major reason is that their figures are based on weight, not value. We've published a whitepaper on this topic: Concrete is 90% of the weight, NOT value! The real value lies in the other 10%!

wasteguardinnovations.com/whitepaper

WasteGuard Innovations @wasteguard.bsky.social · Jun 26

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Something I'd like to get your feedback on : wasteguardinnovations.com/whitepaper

WasteGuard Innovations @wasteguard.bsky.social · Jun 26

As it turns out, EPA estimates C&D waste based on weight, not value. We can draw from this the conclusion that concrete makes up the most of the value lost because we throw it away (90%, per the EPA), when in reality its the other 10% (steel, copper, wood, etc).

wasteguardinnovations.com/whitepaper

WasteGuard Innovations @wasteguard.bsky.social · Jun 26

There is a lot to be fixed within the EPA, this guy included. But even on a foundational level, the EPA has made great errors in their estimations of C&D waste. Figures are based on weight, not value.

This problem has huge implications.

Whitepaper: wasteguardinnovations.com/whitepaper