Welcome everybody to the Paper and Plastic Show. My name is Usman Amid. You are in the Ocean Ridge Studios. This is a brand new show that we're doing to, guess what? Talk about the paper and plastic industry. So the name is very simple. We thought we want to make it simple. We want to make it insightful. We want to make it fun. And we want to finally represent Our industry, you have podcasts about gaming, you have podcasts about technology, you have podcasts about software, every single field, but the paper and plastic industry, it's only a few handful of people doing this stuff, making content to make our industry cool, we are the backbone of our society, I would argue imagine for one second that you're garbage, or recycling, then they get picked up for a week, two weeks, three weeks, four weeks, you What's going to happen after four weeks? The neighborhood would be It would stink You would be upset your family would be upset It's extremely important what we do and we want to make sure that the world knows that as well We want to market it out there. You want to get it out there. That's what this podcast is for The goal is to make content to make marketing and recycling cool And we want to bring you all along for the ride and give you some business tips about recycling, about the paper industry, about the plastic industry. Just talk about our industry. Our goal is to get a few guests on here in the next episode to come and just see, where it goes. So Jaz, are you ready for this brother? Episode one, we have Sundas here. She's going to be here. Our marketing team is here. We're ready to go. So let's dive right in. Let's go straight with what's happening in our industry. Um, mergers are scary sometimes. You hear about mergers and you're like, Oh imagine like Coca Cola bought Pepsi. Is that a good thing or a bad thing? But right now, there's a pretty big merger that happened in the paper industry. So Imperial Dade, Everett and Imperial Dade, they expanded and they bought another distributor called the Brown and Paper Company in Houston. And, this is a merger that brings together two companies that have really good, fundamental bases. They're, they have exceptional customer service. They're distributors in the food services industries. And It's a scary time, but I really feel that, these mergers are not always a bad thing. They have their positives as well because at the end of the day You're able to bring two fantastic companies that have two fantastic resources and provide even more exceptional customer service, of course, it does mean that there's less Competition and that's always a tough thing because you have a lot of these mills at the mill level, I'm not sure because there's a lot of mills who have combined together and now it feels like at some point there'll just be one paper mill, which is scary. But with that said, it's like this merger, I'm actually excited about because both of these companies, it's Broner has been around since 1946 and, um, Imperial Data is an amazing company. And I feel that now they have over 120, 000 customers across North America. So distributors coming together. It just makes life easier because at the end of the day, we can now have faster service, we can provide a better quality, a better care. It's not always a scary thing, I feel that. But at the same time, it is a small company goes away. you went any longer, I would have been ruined. All over the world and at Ocean Ridge, we pride ourselves for finding creative solutions and finding unique ways to reuse and reduce paper and plastic because typically what happens is you get paper and there are people that have only two ideas. Either you can reuse it, which means it can be, like you just use it in the office multiple times. Maybe you flip it over, use it again or You toss it in the garbage or landfill, it's either garbage, or maybe if you're lucky, it goes in the, you have a good recycling program, it goes in the blue bin, and you can make new paper out of it, the mills will buy it, they'll buy SOP, they'll buy some pulp subs, and they'll make new paper, but nobody thinks about you Is that it or is there more opportunities? And when you go overseas particularly, I mean if you're from north america and we're from north america If you go overseas, that's when you find out there are so many creative ways to reduce and reuse paper So like I always give the example so I'm from Pakistan. And in Pakistan, something that's really unique is that if you go to any food vendors or food stands, what they'll do is they'll have these yellow page type books. On their food stand, and they'll get them chickpeas. They'll warm them up, they'll toast them, and they'll rip a page out, make a little funnel, and they'll pop their chickpeas inside and they'll give the chickpeas to, to the people. And this is very common. So like in Pakistan, this is a very common thing. Anybody from Pakistan, they'll know that's what it is. But anybody in North America. A yellow page book. The only thing that can happen is landfill or maybe a mill will recycle it. So that's where this video comes in where I found this really cool video. I think it's from Brazil Because there's a brazilian flag on it on the jar. So I assume it was Brazil. So let's play this video And let's see. Let's see what it's about So, okay, so she gets that bottle And she washes it. So this is like a plastic bottle, PET bottle. Uh, Looks like. And if you look, there's like a small blade where she cuts it. And all of a sudden, she's tying it onto this fishing, fishing rod? Maybe fishing rod? I don't know. Fishing string? I can't tell. Okay. Boom! Boom. It's just spinning. It's just spinning. Look at that and this bottle that. You know, Like any one of us, if you were thinking about recycling, the first thing you thinking about is, oh, it has to be melted down and all you can do is make Ginos out of it. But this woman, that's amazing. I'm gonna totally butcher the name of Arta Petra. I don't know if that's in her name or that's city, but kudos to you, man, that that's so, she made, she's making string. Out of plastic bottles, maybe it's a new fishing string or whatever it's going to be. But that's, that's a hack and that's what we got to do. We got to find more creative ways to reuse our resources because there's limited resources. And if you're always thinking about, Hey, landfill, you know, is, is, is, is option one and option two is recycling or option one is recycling and option two is landfill. This is what it is. You know, Like reusing is that, is that, is that key part of the. Uh Cycle that sometimes is not discussed enough. It's always talking about recycle and always talking about trash But not enough about reuse. That's amazing. Kudos to you. Yeah, thumbs up to you as well So check it out guys check out on tiktok That's amazing. And I think that a reuse portion of it is actually missing in our whole like industry I know I mean I get it if you're a paper mill you want to make new paper I get it. You're a plastic company. You want to make new plastic but like when it trickles down Why don't we reuse that material until it dies? Like until it has many usages, right? Until it dies. That's cool guys. Good. Fine. I like that. So we'll do that every week and we'll react to some of these videos. All right. Fact segment, paper, plastic. We're the paper plastic industry. We are super essential. The most essential industry in the world. I'm going to say it. I'm going to say it with my chest. We are the most essential industry in the world. But that said, so this is a kind of a cool fact that You know, not a lot of people know about it. Every single day you use toilet paper. But did you know that the toilet paper production is very water intensive? Scientific American reported that making a single roll of toilet paper takes an estimated 37 gallons of water. And Americans use, over 36 billion rolls of toilet paper annually. We do the math on that. Each roll A liter of toilet paper takes 37 gallons of water to use and to make, right? So it comes down to, even when you're using your TP, be careful, don't just roll the whole thing off, just take a couple rolls and use it because that's, how many 37 gallons in liters guys? Can someone search that for me? Like 37 gallons of water. It's just all these units, you have metric tons, and short tons, and pounds, and, everybody uses metric tons and like kilograms and grams and not America. America wants to use pounds, and gallons, and all these things, are you able to find it? 37 gallons to liters? It's okay guys. One day, I'm just gonna ask ChadGBT, and AI, and maybe Jaws if that's it, brother. That's it, there goes your job, just got an AI robot to just handle my, handle the camera. 140. 140? Yeah. 140 liters guys. It takes 140 liters of water to make a single roll of toilet paper, that is wild. So that's another reason why we have to reuse because that same notion goes to the plastic bottles. How much is that? 4 liters. That's 4 liters? Alright. That's 4 liters guys. Okay, that's. Imagine I don't know, a hundred 140, whatever times that is. The math isn't great. I haven't had lunch yet. Alright, so the point stands that, look, that's so much resources being used to create some paper. And that same rule applies to plastic, or it applies to, your paper bottles sorry, your plastic bottles. It applies to that lady who just made a string out of plastic bottles. That's cool, we've spent the resources to make it, 1 percent drinks it, and 30 minutes it's trash. How terrible, right? How terrible is that? That all that resource in 30 minutes is gone. Maybe 10 minutes, like you drink your water, boom, gone. If we can reuse and find creative ways to use material, not just as a great environment, it's actually good money. And we'll get to that in episode 2, so anyways guys some general advice to talk about to close the show is that we are a paper and plastic company. Typically you think about that, you're think about, Hey, these guys probably sell paper. They're not the office, like we're the office, but for plastic too. And typically you are gonna see us, a typical paper plastic company or a selling company, making a podcast, making these videos. But we wanna make our industry cool. We want to make our industry cool. We want us, the people, the young people to be like, I want to work for the paper and plastic industry. Because it is an essential business. It is an essential business and it's an essential industry. And it's something that I think, I encourage everybody in our industry, Hey guys, make content. Tell the people what you're doing. If you're working a MRF, if you're working a slicing plant, if you're making granules, or you're creating new paper bags or plastic bags, Show the people what you do, because they need to realize we are an essential business. We are the backbone of our civilization, and that needs to be, to be documented. Hopefully many more episodes to come. This is episode uno, episode one. And we're going to be coming back, judges coming back, citizens coming back. Is that Instagram live? We'll be on Instagram live. Maybe we'll be on other platforms. And hopefully we're going to make this a regular thing. See you guys soon. Take care, and see you in episode two. If you're working a MRF, if you're working a slicing plant, if you're making granules, or you're creating new paper bags or plastic bags, Show the people what you do, because they need to realize we are an essential business. We are the backbone of our civilization, and that needs to be,