Like anyone who has spent nearly a decade in the startup space, you see trends come, inflate to comical proportions, see companies— products and people— quickly move to adopt, the trend proceeds to self-combust, people are fired, mistakes are forgiven in the court of public opinion, op-Ed’s are written, we laugh at our naïveté until the next one comes along.

Some things are meant to be together. Like PB & J, campfires & smores, Jim & Pam. When Avocado brought us on as their first partner in NYC, it was a perfect match. We caught up with Joy Joseph, a Subject Matter Expert on the Returns & Donations team, about our partnership and mutual love for The Trash Walker, NYC, and making landfills obsolete.

There’s so much room to experiment, to partner with different industries, to think outside the box when it comes to our uses for things. I’m motivated by this idea that all of these pieces of the puzzle that we’re working with are ultimately going to create a circular system that benefits the environment, businesses and communities.